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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Probably an Americanized form of German Salathe.
  • Alternatively, perhaps an altered spelling of French Salade, a habitational name from a place in Haute-Garonne, which may have denoted a storage place for salt.

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