Last name: SUTHERLAND
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Last name frequency
SUTHERLAND : This last name is indexed 226,327 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
SUTHERLAND : Scottish (Caithness): habitational name from the Scottish county of Sutherland named with Old Norse súthr ‘south southern’ + land ‘land’ because the territory lay south of Scandinavia and the Norse colonies in the Orkney and Shetland Islands.
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