Last name: SALT

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SALT : This last name is indexed 80,058 times on Geneanet!

Origin of last name

SALT : 1: English: habitational name from Salt (Staffordshire) from Old English selte ‘salt pit’. Occasionally the name may be a nickname for a producer or seller of salt from Middle English salt ‘salt’ (compare Salter) but evidence is lacking.2: Native American (Navajo): from a translation into English of the name of the Navajo clan Áshįįhi ‘Salt People’.

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