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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish : nickname for a short-tempered person, from szaleć ‘to rage’.
  • Polish : metonymic occupational name for a merchant, from szala ‘scales’.
  • Hungarian : from the old secular personal name Szala or Zala.

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