Frequency: (216)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Serbian and Croatian: nickname from salo ‘pork fat’, ‘lard’ + a derivative of the verb peći ‘to bake’.
See the Key to the Dictionary or consult the General Introduction for further explanation.
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