The surname Salsgiver
A German occupational surname, carried by 605 people in the United States.
3 syllables Soundex S421
Origin
German origin
Partial transaltion of the German surname Salzgeber, an occupational surname for a salt merchant from Salz (“salt”) + Geber (“giver, donor”).
Salsgiver is an occupational surname: named after the work an ancestor did.
One of 1,101 German surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 605 people named Salsgiver in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 510,323 Americans. That is up 6.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 567.
Who is named Salsgiver
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
95% of people named Salsgiver identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.5% as two or more races and 1.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 95%
- Two or more races 2.5%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.3%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Surnames that sound like Salsgiver
Salsgiver has the Soundex code S421, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S421.
Other German surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Salsgiver come from?
- Partial transaltion of the German surname Salzgeber, an occupational surname for a salt merchant from Salz (“salt”) + Geber (“giver, donor”).
- How common is the surname Salsgiver?
- 605 people in the United States had the surname Salsgiver in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 510,323 Americans. It ranked 36,900th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Salsgiver?
- In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Salsgiver identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.5% as two or more races.
- What type of surname is Salsgiver?
- Salsgiver is an occupational surname, named after the work an ancestor did.
- Is the surname Salsgiver getting more or less common?
- More common. 567 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 605 in 2010, up 6.7%.