Salt Name Meaning
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. Native American (Navajo): from a translation into English of the name of the Navajo clan Áshįįhi ‘Salt People’.
Salter Name Meaning
English: occupational name for an extractor or seller of salt (a precious commodity in medieval times) from Middle English salter(e) ‘producer or seller of salt’. There may have been some post-medieval confusion with Souter ; see also Saltman . English: occupational name from Middle English sautreour ‘minstrel player of the psaltery (a stringed musical instrument)’ (Old French sautere ‘psaltery’ Latin psalterium Greek psaltērion from psallein ‘to sound’). Compare Rutter . German: northern variant of Salzer . Americanized form of French Salois.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Sale, Salz, Salts, Salb, Sult, Halt, Salter, Sala, Salm, Sol
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts
