Salle Family History

French: topographic name or a metonymic occupational name for someone who lived or worked at a manor house from Old French salle ‘large room hall’. Compare Desalle and Lasalle.

French (Sallé): from Old French salé ‘salty salted’ hence a metonymic occupational name for someone who dealt with salt meat or salt fish or perhaps in a figurative sense a nickname for a witty or mordant person. Compare Sallee and Salley.

North German: topographic name probably cognate with Middle High German sal ‘dark murky dirty’.