The salmon Surname
salmon Name Meaning and History
- English and French: from the Middle English, Old French personal name Salmon, Saumon, a reduced form of Salomon (see Solomon).
- Jewish (Ashkenazic): from the Yiddish male personal name Zalmen, derived via a German form from Hebrew Shelomo (see Solomon).
- Irish: part translation of Gaelic Ó Bradáin ‘descendant of Bradán’, a personal name, probably from bradach ‘spirited’, but written the same as a word meaning ‘salmon’; this name is also sometimes translated Fisher. The English surname is also present in Ireland (chiefly in counties Leix and Kilkenny).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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