Origin and popularity of the name SUTER

Origin

Suter : 1: English German and Dutch: occupational name for a shoemaker or cobbler (one who sews leather and other materials) from Middle English suter souter sutter Middle High German sūter Middle Dutch sutter ‘shoemaker’ (from Latin sutor an agent derivative of suere ‘to sew’). Compare Sauter Souter Sooter Sutor and Sutter.2: English: status name from Anglo-Norman French and Middle English sutour suter sutter souter seuter ‘follower retainer’ ‘petitioner’ ‘suitor a tenant whose duty it is to attend a manorial court’. The name was pronounced either with /iu/ (hence variants such as Suiter) or with /u:/ leading to confusion with Souter Sutor and Sooter.

Sauter : 1: German: occupational name for a shoemaker or cobbler (one who sews leather and other materials) Middle High German sūter (from Latin sutor an agent derivative of suere ‘to sew’). Compare Sauder and Souter.2: English (Kent): variant of Salter.3: Dutch and Flemish: occupational name for a producer or seller of salt from an agent derivative of Middle Dutch sout ‘salt’.

Sitterly : Americanized form of South German Sitterli Sitterle an occupational name for a shoemaker or tailor from a diminutive of Middle High German sūter ‘sewer’.

Sutter : English Scottish South German and Dutch: occupational name for a shoemaker or cobbler (rarely a tailor) from Middle English suter souter Middle High German sūter sūtære Middle Dutch sutter (from Latin sutor an agent derivative of suere ‘to sew’). Compare Souter and Suter.

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