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The slay Surname

slay Name Meaning and History

  1. from Middle English slaye (Old English slege, from slean ‘to strike’), a metonymic occupational name for a slay maker, an implement used in weaving to push the weft thread tightly against the thread of the preceding pass of the shuttle.
  2. topographic name from Middle English slay ‘grassy slope’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of slay Families in the US in 1920
Number of slay families
 49-96
 17-48
 1-16
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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