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Salas Name Meaning
Spanish, Galician, Aragonese, and Portuguese: habitational name
from any of the numerous places called with Salas, like Salas and
Salas de los Barrios, (Galicia), Salas de los Infantes, (Burgos
province), Salas Altas and Salas Baxas (Aragon), from the plural of
Sala.Catalan and Asturian-Leonese: variant of
Sales.Americanized spelling of Hungarian
Szálas, a nickname from szálas ‘tall’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Salas
Name Distribution of Salas Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Salas families
 89 - 176  30 - 88 |
 1 - 29  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Salas families
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8 - 14 3 - 7 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Salas Family Origin
Salas Immigration Information
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Salas Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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