The slaughter Surname
slaughter Name Meaning and History
- occupational name for a slaughterer of animals, from Middle English slahter (an agent derivative of slaht ‘killing’).
- topographic name from Middle English sloghtre ‘boggy place’, or a habitational name from a place named with this term (Old English slohtre), for example Upper and Lower Slaughter in Gloucestershire.
- topographic name for someone who lived by a blackthorn or sloe, Old English slahtreow.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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