How common is the surname Salts?

544 people in the United States had the surname Salts in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 567,547 Americans. It ranked 40,261st of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Salts?

In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Salts identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Salts getting more or less common?

Less common. 657 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 544 in 2010, down 17%.

The surname Salts

A Yiddish occupational surname, carried by 544 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex S432

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Salts is more common than 75.2% of them.

Origin

Yiddish origin

Borrowed from Yiddish זאַלץ (zalts, “salt”), a Jewish Ashkenazi metonymic occupational surname for a salt producer or seller.

Salts is an occupational surname: named after the work an ancestor did.

One of 31 Yiddish surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 544 people named Salts in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 567,547 Americans. That is down 17% since 2000, when the Census counted 657.

#40,261

rank among US surnames

544

people in 2010

0.2

per 100,000 Americans

-17.2%

change since 2000 (was #32,900)

Who is named Salts

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

94% of people named Salts identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 2.4% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 94%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.4%
Two or more races 2.4%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Salts

Salts has the Soundex code S432, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S432.

Other Yiddish surnames

All 31 Yiddish surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Salts come from?: Borrowed from Yiddish זאַלץ (zalts, “salt”), a Jewish Ashkenazi metonymic occupational surname for a salt producer or seller.
How common is the surname Salts?: 544 people in the United States had the surname Salts in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 567,547 Americans. It ranked 40,261st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Salts?: In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Salts identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
What type of surname is Salts?: Salts is an occupational surname, named after the work an ancestor did.
Is the surname Salts getting more or less common?: Less common. 657 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 544 in 2010, down 17%.