as a Last Name
- 28,683
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Sutherland
Meaning & Origins
Scottish: regional name from the former county of this name, so named from Old Norse suðr ‘south’ + land ‘land’ because the territory lay south of Scandinavia and the Norse colonies in the Orkney and Shetland Islands.
| 1,056th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 28,683
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Guam
- has the most people named Sutherland per capita
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