Sales (surname)

Sales (Portuguese pronunciation: ['salis] or ['saliʃ]) is a Portuguese-language surname of French roots (derived from Francis de Sales, a bishop and Catholic saint, member of the noble Sales family of the Duchy of Savoy),[1] common in Portugal and Brazil (with an archaic alternative spelling, Salles).

This surname can be English, from Middle English salwes (sallows), a topographic name for someone who lived by a group of sallow trees.[2]

Other variants are Spanish (Asturian-Leonese) and Catalan. The origins are habitational names from any of the places called Sales, like Sales de Llierca (Catalonia) or Sales (Asturies), from the plural of Sala.[2]

Sales may refer to:

  1. ^ "Família Sales". Origem do Sobrenome. Retrieved 2018-12-28.
  2. ^ a b Dictionary of American Family Names - Oxford University Press (2013). "Sales Family History". Ancestry.com. Retrieved 2018-12-28.