# Salt (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/salt/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | English |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 1,102 |
| US rank (2010) | 23,153 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 280,168 people |
| Change since 2000 | -0.5% (1,107 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

From Middle English [Term?], from Old English Selte. Compare Salter. The Staffordshire village was recorded as Selte in 1086 (DB), for a salt pit or saltworks.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Salt in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 58% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.5% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 6.3% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 31% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Salt in the United States and the United Kingdom.

## People named Salt

- Jennifer Salt, American actress, writer and producer
- Waldo Salt, American screenwriter (1914-1987)
- Charlotte Salt, British actress

## Similar surnames

Slate, Solt, Schulte, Slade, Sloat, Schuldt, Schild, Shield, Soliday.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.