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’.