Salisbury Family History
Salisbury Name Meaning
habitational name from the city in Wiltshire, the
Roman name of which was Sorviodunum (of British origin). In the
Old English period the second element (from Celtic dun
‘fortress’) was dropped and Sorvio- (of unexplained meaning)
became Searo- in Old English as the result of folk etymological
association with Old English searu ‘armor’; to this an
explanatory burh ‘fortress’, ‘manor’, ‘town’ was added. The
city is recorded in the Domesday Book as Sarisberie; the change of
-r- to -l- is the result of later dissimilation.habitational name from Salesbury in Lancashire, so named from Old
English salh ‘willow’ + burh ‘fortress’, ‘manor’.
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Name Distribution of Salisbury Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Salisbury families
 201 - 399  68 - 200 |
 1 - 67  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Salisbury families
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485 - 968 162 - 484 |
1 - 161 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Salisbury families
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13 - 23 5 - 12 |
1 - 4 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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