Salle Family History
Salle Name Meaning
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’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022