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), 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.

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.

Sales may refer to:

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