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),[1] 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.
[2] 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.
[2] Sales may refer to: