Family name origins & meanings
- Americanized form of Dutch Sloot, a topographic name from sloot ‘drainage ditch’, ‘channel’ (compare Vandersloot), or of Slott ‘lock’.
- Early Sloats in America were Dutch, emigrating from Holland in the mid 17th century. A Jan Pieterson Sloat or Slott (c. 1613–1703), is recorded as an immigrant in New Amsterdam in 1650.