Italian, Catalan, Portuguese, southern French (Occitan), and
Romanian: from sala ‘hall’, hence a topographic name or an
occupational name for someone employed at a hall or manor house. Both
the Italian and Catalan names may also be of habitational origin: in
the case of Italian, from (amongst others) Sala Biellese (Biella
province), Sala Consilina (Salerno province), and Sala Monferrato
(Alessandria), and in the case of Catalan from places called Sala or
La Sala. This name is very common in Catalonia. RS, DK, EC. IGI:
chiefly Italian and Catalan; none truly Spanish et al.Spanish,
Asturian-Leonese, and Aragonese: in some cases, habitational name from
places called Sala (Asturies and Aragón) or La Sala
(Asturies).Hungarian: from a short form of the
Biblical name Salamon (see Solomon).Muslim:
variant of Salah.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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