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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : topographic name for someone who lived in a muddy place, from Middle English slott ‘mud’, ‘slime’.
  • Swedish and Danish : ornamental name from slot(t) ‘palace’.
  • Variant spelling of Dutch Slot, a metonymic occupational name for a locksmith, from Middle Dutch slo(e)t ‘lock’, ‘clasp’.
  • Americanized form of Czech and Slovak slota ‘bad weather’, ‘evil person’, ‘witch’.

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