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The salter Surname

salter Name Meaning and History

  1. English: occupational name for an extractor or seller of salt (a precious commodity in medieval times), from Middle English salt ‘salt’ + the agent suffix -er.
  2. English: occupational name for a player on the psaltery, a string instrument, Middle English, Old French saltere ‘psaltery’. (The Middle English word is derived from Latin psalterium, Greek psalterion, from psallein ‘to sound’).
  3. North German form of Salzer.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of salter Families in the US in 1920
Number of salter families
 98-193
 33-97		 1-32
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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