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.