Salb Family History
- Salb Name Meaning
- metonymic occupational name for a maker or seller of ointments, from Middle High German salbe ‘ointment’, ‘salve’. The name also came to mean ‘flatterer’, ‘toady’. nickname from Midle High German salwe ‘dark’ ‘sallow’, ‘dirty’. variant of Salet(e)l, probably Austrian, also found in the Gottschee area in Slovenia.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 8,427 Historical Documents with Salb on Ancestry
- 4,178 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 1,409 Census and Voter Lists
- 1,008 Military Records
- 247 Immigration Records
- 1,585 Member Trees
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Number of Salb families
 17 - 31  6 - 16 |
 1 - 5  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Salb census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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