Scottish: regional name from the former county of this name, so
named from Old Norse suðr ‘south’ + land ‘land’
because the territory lay south of Scandinavia and the Norse colonies
in the Orkney and Shetland Islands.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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