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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : variant of Sale 1.
  • English : from a short form of a personal name beginning with Sal-, for example Salomon.
  • Swedish (Säll) : nickname from säll ‘happy’, ‘fortunate’, probably a soldier’s name.
  • African : unexplained.

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