Family name origins & meanings
- French : topographic name, with fused preposition and definite article du ‘from the’, from Old French sauz, the old subjective case of salix ‘willow’.
- French : topographic name, with fused preposition and definite article du ‘from the’, from Old French saut ‘grove’, ‘copse’ (from Latin saltus), or a habitational name from any of the places named Le Sault, for example in Ain and Vaucluse.
- French : There was a family of this name from La Rochelle in Quebec city in 1663; one from Paris in Sillery in 1676.