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The SALES surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 8,725 3733 0.003 32
United States (1880 census) 1,940 3049 0.004 39
Change since 1880 +6785 -684 -0.001 -7
Other Countries
Australia 441 3598 0.003 27
United Kingdom 2,448 2503 0.005 53
Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Classification and Origin of SALES

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Spain

Language of origin: Spanish

Ethnic origin: Iberian

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the SALES surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the SALES surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of SALES in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 286 3.28
Native American/Alaskan 72 0.83
White (Caucasian) 3,913 44.85
Black/African American 2,217 25.41
Asian/Pacific 1,161 13.31
White (Hispanic) 1,076 12.33

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the SALES surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of SALES in historical publications

Sahl, or saal, in German, signifies a hall or court. French, salle. The name may be local, and derived from the river Sale, in France, or Saal, a river in Bavaria.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.


SALE. SALES. A-Sax. sel, scle, &c. French, mile, a hall. " Between 1332 and 1348, the name borne by the famous knight commemorated by Froissart, and who was liilled by tlie insurgents near Norwich, in 1381, is severally written De la Sale, De Salle, De Aula, De la Saule, De Halle, Saul, and Halle." Notes and Queries, v. 291. The North Wilts family of Hale of Bradford also wrote themselves De Aula and De la Sale. " Halle, alias De la Sale, dwellitli iu a pretty stone house at the east end of the town, on the right bank of Avon: a man of £100 lands by the year : an ancient gentleman since tlie time of Edward I." Leland's Itinerary.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to SALES

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as SALES.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for SALES

The following words are slight variants of SALES that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.