as a Last Name
- 24,606
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Slaughter
Meaning & Origins
English: 1. occupational name for a slaughterer of animals, from Middle English slahter (an agent derivative of slaht ‘killing’). 2. topographic name from Middle English sloghtre ‘boggy place’, or a habitational name from a place named with this term (Old English slōhtre), for example Upper and Lower Slaughter in Gloucestershire. 3. topographic name for someone who lived by a blackthorn or sloe, Old English slāhtrēow.
| 1,230th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Slauson, Slaugh, Slaubaugh, Slauter, Slaughterback, Slaughterbeck, Slaugther, Slauenwhite, Slaugenhaupt, Slaugter
Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 24,606
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Georgia
- has the most people named Slaughter per capita
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