Sutherland

28,660 people in the United States were counted with the surname Sutherland in the 2020 census, making it the 1,206th most common in the country. That is about one person in 10,400.

By the numbers

People: 28,660
Rank: 1,206th
How common: 1 in 10,400
Per 100,000: 9.6

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

The name of the county is from Old Norse Suðrland, from suðr (“south”) + land (“land”), named from the point of view of Orkney and Shetland.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Sutherland described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 80.0%
Black, not Hispanic 10.3%
Hispanic or Latino 4.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%

Notable people called Sutherland

Donald Sutherland (1935–2024)Canadian actor
Kiefer Sutherland (born 1966)British-Canadian actor
Earl Wilbur Sutherland, Jr. (1915–1974)American pharmacologist
Joan Sutherland (1926–2010)Australian soprano
Ivan Sutherland (born 1938)American computer scientist and Internet pioneer
Graham Sutherland (1903–1980)English artist
Kristine Sutherland (born 1955)American actress
Rossif Sutherland (born 1978)Canadian actor

People named Sutherland with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Sutherland

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.