Sutherland Name Origin, Meaning and Family History

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Surname Distribution

Census frequency by county

Name Concentrations Within England and Wales

England

Bedfordshire 11
Buckinghamshire 10
Berkshire 12
Cambridgeshire 7
Channel Islands 0
Cheshire 114
Cornwall 10
Cumberland 46
Derbyshire 27
Devon 14
Dorset 32
Durham 457
Essex 173
Gloucestershire 21
Hampshire 72
Herefordshire 5
Hertfordshire 33
Huntingdonshire (and Rutland) 3
Isle of Man 10
Kent 128
Lancashire 569
Leicestershire 7
Lincolnshire 51
London 702
Middlesex 145
Northumberland 362
Norfolk 77
Northamptonshire 17
Nottinghamshire 29
Oxfordshire 4
Rutland (and Huntingdonshire) 3
Shropshire 11
Suffolk 18
Somerset 7
Surrey 106
Sussex 76
Staffordshire 63
Warwickshire 90
Westmorland 6
Wiltshire 4
Worcestershire 25
Yorkshire 268

Wales

Anglesey 1
Brecknockshire 30
Cardiganshire 2
Carnarvonshire 0
Carmarthenshire 7
Denbighshire 3
Flintshire 0
Glamorgan 94
Merionethshire 1
Montgomeryshire 0
Monmouthshire 33
Pembrokeshire 4
Radnorshire 0

Sutherland Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Sutherland family

Profession Census Frequency
School 369
Private Means 63
Clerk 36
None 22
Dressmaker 17
At Home 17
Domestic Servant 16
General Servant (domestic) 16
Labourer 16
Nil 15
House Painter 14
Coal Miner Hewer 14
Bank Clerk 13
Commercial Traveller 13
General Labourer 13
Student 13
At School 12
Cook 11
Dock Labourer 11
Fisherman 11
House Keeper 10
Cooper 9
General Servant Domestic 9
Scholar 9
Soldier 9

Most Frequent Forenames for Sutherland

Name Census Frequency
John Sutherland 1,224
William Sutherland 1,161
Mary Sutherland 997
James Sutherland 786
George Sutherland 768
Elizabeth Sutherland 724
Margaret Sutherland 534
Robert Sutherland 478
Jane Sutherland 452
Thomas Sutherland 442
Sarah Sutherland 404
Alexander Sutherland 379
Ann Sutherland 296
Annie Sutherland 280
Charles Sutherland 268
Isabella Sutherland 255
Eliza Sutherland 237
Donald Sutherland 225
Catherine Sutherland 220
Ellen Sutherland 218
David Sutherland 198
Alice Sutherland 191
Henry Sutherland 169
Emma Sutherland 166
Jessie Sutherland 152

Sutherland Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Sutherland 100% 18,499
2 Southerland 91% 699

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The surname Sutherland is the most popular version of all its varients

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