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salmon Name Meaning and History

  1. English and French: from the Middle English, Old French personal name Salmon, Saumon, a reduced form of Salomon (see Solomon).
  2. Jewish (Ashkenazic): from the Yiddish male personal name Zalmen, derived via a German form from Hebrew Shelomo (see Solomon).
  3. 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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The salmon name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the salmon family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of salmon Families in the US in 1920
Number of salmon families
 104-206
 35-103		 1-34
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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