The surname Saltsman
A German occupational surname, carried by 1,740 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex S432
Origin
German origin
Jewish and German occupational surname, Americanized and translated from German Salz + Mann. Compare Salsman, Saltman.
Saltsman 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 1,740 people named Saltsman in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 177,440 Americans. That is up 12% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,561.
Who is named Saltsman
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
94% of people named Saltsman identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.4% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.1% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 94%
- Black (not Hispanic) 3.4%
- Two or more races 1.1%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 0.5%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Saltsman has the Soundex code S432, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S432.
Other German surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Saltsman come from?
- Jewish and German occupational surname, Americanized and translated from German Salz + Mann. Compare Salsman, Saltman.
- How common is the surname Saltsman?
- 1,740 people in the United States had the surname Saltsman in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 177,440 Americans. It ranked 16,509th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Saltsman?
- In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Saltsman identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.4% as Black (not Hispanic).
- What type of surname is Saltsman?
- Saltsman is an occupational surname, named after the work an ancestor did.
- Is the surname Saltsman getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,561 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,740 in 2010, up 12%.