The history of your name

The SALT surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,107 21880 0 4
United States (1880 census) 287 14784 0.001 6
Change since 1880 +820 -7096 +N/A -2
Other Countries
Australia 427 3705 0.003 26
United Kingdom 5,315 1174 0.012 116
Top States for SALT by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Arizona 119 5770 0.002 23
Florida 117 17192 0.001 7
California 110 24372 0.000 3
Utah 99 3291 0.004 44
New York 77 27564 0.000 4
Top States for SALT by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Utah 99 3291 0.004 44
Arizona 119 5770 0.002 23
New Mexico 22 8196 0.001 12
Oregon 33 15158 0.001 10
Montana 8 19943 0.001 9

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.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called SALT live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called SALT represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called SALT in Arizona than any other state, but you are more likely to find a SALT by picking someone at random in Utah than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of SALT

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the SALT 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 SALT 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 SALT in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 684 61.79
Native American/Alaskan 322 29.09
Asian/Pacific 47 4.25
Mixed Race 30 2.71
White (Hispanic) 14 1.26
Black/African American 10 0.9

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

Meaning of SALT in historical publications

SALT. This surname is very common in Staffoi'dshire, in which county there is a village so called. In 110(5, it is written Selte. Lib. Nig. Scacc. In the reign of Henry III. Ivo de Saut held one knight's fee in Saut, of the Barony of Stafford. Subsequently Hugh de Salt held Salt of Philip de Chetwynd. From this tenure, and from the resemblance of the arms, it is probable that Salt was a cadet of Chetwynd. In the Visitations of Staftbrdshire there are pedigrees of this family, from whom descend Thomas Salt, Esq., jun., M.P. for Stafford, and William Salt, Esq., F.S.A.

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 SALT

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as SALT.

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 SALT

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