Spanish: Castilianized form of Soutomaior, a habitational
name from the name of two places in Pontevedra and Ourense provinces,
Galicia, so named from souto ‘grove’, ‘small wood’ +
maior ‘larger’, ‘main’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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