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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : topographic name for someone who lived near a swamp or bog, from Old English slōh ‘slough’, or a habitational name from one of the various places, for example Slough in Berkshire, named with this word.
  • English : nickname for a sluggish or stupid person, from Middle English slou ‘slow’.
  • English : topographic name for someone who lived by a blackthorn or sloe, from Middle English sloh. Compare Slaughter 3.
  • Americanized form of Polish and Jewish Sloma.

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