Saalfeld Family History
Saalfeld Name Meaning
German: topographic name from Middle High German sal ‘manor hall’ (or from a homonym meaning ‘moist dirt’) + velt ‘field’. German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): habitational name from any of the places so called in Thuringia and East Prussia. Jewish (Ashkenazic): compound artificial name from Sal (a short form of Salomon ) + German Feld ‘field pasture’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022