The Salles Family Name

There is no single Salles family crest for every bearer. Herald Lab researches the arms historically associated with the name and explains whose they were.

Meaning of the name

Salles sits within the Sales family of names, which has Portuguese roots. At root, the name means “Willows / halls”.

The extra “l” in Salles is a spelling habit rather than a different name. Before spelling was standardised, one family could appear under several forms. 9,624 people born in France between 1891 and 2000 carried the Salles name at birth. There were 624 such births in the 1890s and 674 in the 1990s. In the Spanish register, Salles appears 751 times as a first surname and 629 times as a second one.

Get the complete Salles report, with a museum-style coat of arms.