Salts
See also: salts
English
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Yiddish זאַלץ (zalts, “salt”), a Jewish Ashkenazi metonymic occupational surname for a salt producer or seller.
Statistics
- According to the 2010 United States Census, Salts is the 40261st most common surname in the United States, belonging to 544 individuals. Salts is most common among White (93.75%) individuals.
Further reading
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Salts”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
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