Sund Family History

Swedish and Danish: from sund ‘strait sound’ a topographic name adopted by someone who lived by a strait or an ornamental name (often from a corresponding placename element).

Norwegian: habitational name from any of twenty-five or more farmsteads mainly in Nordland from Old Norse sund ‘strait sound’.

English: nickname for a healthy or prosperous person from Middle English sund sound ‘sound healthy prosperous’ (Old English sund).

English: topographic name for someone who lived by a sound or strait from Middle English sound sund ‘sound (body of water sea)’ (Old English sund).

English: variant of Sand.