Slaughters Surname Meaning & Coat of Arms

Slaughters? Think of it as Slaughter with a different pen.

The family name meaning is “Dweller by a muddy place”, the same as for Slaughter. Slaughters adds a patronymic ending to Slaughter, marking ‘son of’ or ‘of the family of’. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them. Related forms: Sloughter.

Family crest and blazon

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