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The sunderland Surname

sunderland Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from any of various places so called, especially the city at the mouth of the river Wear. This, like other places so called in Cumbria, Lancashire, and southern Scotland, derives its name from Old English sundor ‘separate’ + land ‘land’; a further example in Northumbria has the same origin as Sutherland.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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sunderland Family Facts

Distribution of sunderland Families in the US in 1920
Number of sunderland families
 52-101
 18-51		 1-17
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Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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