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seltzer Name Meaning and History

German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for an extractor or seller of salt, from an agent derivative of Middle High German salz, German Salz ‘salt’.

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Distribution of seltzer Families in the US in 1920
Number of seltzer families
 133-264
 45-132
 1-44
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