Sunderland Surname
Approximately 13,380 people bear this surname
Sunderland Surname Definition:
This surname is derived from a geographical locality. 'of Sunderland,' a seaport parish in County Durham; a great Yorkshire surname that seems early to have passed the borders of the more northern county.
Adam de Sunderland, Lancashire, 20 Edward I: Placita de Quo Warranto, temp.
Read More About This SurnameSunderland Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 6,583 | 1:55,060 | 6,571 |
| England | 3,628 | 1:15,358 | 2,251 |
| Australia | 1,400 | 1:19,283 | 2,665 |
| Canada | 719 | 1:51,246 | 6,183 |
| Ireland | 294 | 1:16,017 | 1,777 |
| New Zealand | 238 | 1:19,027 | 3,347 |
| Mexico | 95 | 1:1,306,592 | 15,115 |
| Scotland | 92 | 1:58,194 | 4,808 |
| Wales | 70 | 1:44,208 | 4,243 |
| South Africa | 36 | 1:1,504,936 | 77,557 |
| France | 32 | 1:2,075,710 | 171,237 |
| Russia | 19 | 1:7,585,424 | 283,555 |
| Thailand | 18 | 1:3,924,352 | 328,346 |
| Belgium | 15 | 1:766,443 | 63,354 |
| Germany | 13 | 1:6,192,728 | 213,814 |
| Switzerland | 12 | 1:684,410 | 46,196 |
| Denmark | 10 | 1:564,472 | 34,222 |
| Poland | 10 | 1:3,800,875 | 132,137 |
| Brazil | 10 | 1:21,407,433 | 350,627 |
| Malaysia | 8 | 1:3,686,778 | 134,908 |
| Isle of Man | 7 | 1:12,260 | 2,387 |
| Netherlands | 7 | 1:2,412,454 | 94,797 |
| Norway | 7 | 1:734,612 | 50,907 |
| Argentina | 6 | 1:7,123,902 | 190,047 |
| Hong Kong | 5 | 1:1,467,097 | 5,611 |
| Northern Ireland | 4 | 1:461,259 | 16,615 |
| Bahrain | 4 | 1:337,152 | 6,054 |
| China | 4 | 1:341,830,392 | 16,990 |
| Singapore | 4 | 1:1,376,926 | 28,409 |
| Japan | 3 | 1:42,614,764 | 59,022 |
| Italy | 2 | 1:30,578,344 | 160,757 |
| South Korea | 2 | 1:25,620,128 | 4,175 |
| Vietnam | 2 | 1:46,323,027 | 5,235 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 1 | 1:1,363,975 | 22,013 |
| Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
| Kazakhstan | 1 | 1:17,682,496 | 204,010 |
| Bahamas | 1 | 1:391,751 | 2,737 |
| Kuwait | 1 | 1:3,800,694 | 27,187 |
| Bermuda | 1 | 1:65,279 | 3,010 |
| United States Virgin Islands | 1 | 1:110,375 | 6,934 |
| Israel | 1 | 1:8,557,634 | 182,558 |
| United Arab Emirates | 1 | 1:9,162,273 | 135,437 |
| Turkey | 1 | 1:77,821,422 | 191,047 |
| Panama | 1 | 1:3,912,258 | 17,195 |
| Cuba | 1 | 1:11,522,716 | 17,380 |
| Tanzania | 1 | 1:52,941,613 | 123,716 |
| Ecuador | 1 | 1:15,905,846 | 50,210 |
| Sri Lanka | 1 | 1:20,808,560 | 18,521 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| Finland | 1 | 1:5,496,702 | 84,025 |
| Mozambique | 1 | 1:27,261,569 | 7,432 |
| Gibraltar | 1 | 1:33,954 | 1,660 |
| Greece | 1 | 1:11,079,790 | 145,225 |
| Indonesia | 1 | 1:132,249,194 | 811,426 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ireland | 202 | 1:21,930 | 2,482 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 3,406 | 1:7,157 | 1,110 |
| Scotland | 24 | 1:155,967 | 6,425 |
| Wales | 8 | 1:196,052 | 7,186 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 1,242 | 1:40,434 | 4,751 |
Sunderland (41) may also be a first name.
Sunderland Surname Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
This surname is derived from a geographical locality. 'of Sunderland,' a seaport parish in County Durham; a great Yorkshire surname that seems early to have passed the borders of the more northern county.
Adam de Sunderland, Lancashire, 20 Edward I: Placita de Quo Warranto, temp. Edward I-III.
Thomas de Sundirland, 1379: T. Yorkshire.
1779. Married — John Sunderland and Dina Dickson: St. George, Hanover Square.
(English) belonging to Sunderland; or Dweller at the Private or Reserved Land ('land set apart’) [Old English sundorland] The Lanc. Sunderland was Sunderlond in the 13th and 14th cent.; the Yorks Sunderlandwick was Sundrelanwic in Domesday-Book; the Durham place was Sounderland in Boldon Book.
Local. A seaport town in the county of Durham, England. Land separated, divided, parted.
(English), Freehold land. (variant: Sonderland.)
Sunderland Demographics
Average Male Sunderland Height
176.03 cm
Sample is predominantly from Anglosphere countries
Sunderland Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Sunderland Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Sunderland occurs more in The United States more than any other country or territory. It may be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of Sunderland.
How Common Is The Last Name Sunderland? popularity and diffusion
It is the 39,249th most commonly held family name internationally, borne by approximately 1 in 544,660 people. The last name Sunderland occurs predominantly in The Americas, where 55 percent of Sunderland live; 55 percent live in North America and 54 percent live in Anglo-North America. Sunderland is also the 1,590,275th most frequent first name worldwide. It is borne by 41 people.
The last name Sunderland is most commonly used in The United States, where it is borne by 6,583 people, or 1 in 55,060. In The United States it is primarily found in: Pennsylvania, where 11 percent are found, Maryland, where 9 percent are found and California, where 8 percent are found. Other than The United States this surname exists in 53 countries. It is also found in England, where 27 percent are found and Australia, where 10 percent are found.
Sunderland Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The occurrence of Sunderland has changed over time. In The United States the number of people who held the Sunderland surname rose 530 percent between 1880 and 2014; in England it rose 107 percent between 1881 and 2014; in Ireland it rose 146 percent between 1901 and 2014; in Scotland it rose 383 percent between 1881 and 2014 and in Wales it rose 875 percent between 1881 and 2014.
Sunderland Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those bearing the surname is chiefly Catholic (71%) in Ireland.
In The United States those bearing the Sunderland last name are 12.86% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than The US average, with 59.63% being registered with the party.
The amount Sunderland earn in different countries varies greatly. In Norway they earn 46.11% more than the national average, earning 505,644 kr per year; in South Africa they earn 364.91% more than the national average, earning R 1,104,800 per year; in United States they earn 2.38% more than the national average, earning $44,176 USD per year and in Canada they earn 1.74% more than the national average, earning $50,546 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
| Surname | Similarity | Worldwide Incidence | Prevalency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sunderlan | 95 | 3 | / |
| Sundeerland | 95 | 2 | / |
| Sunderlland | 95 | 1 | / |
| Sunderlands | 95 | 1 | / |
| Saunderland | 95 | 1 | / |
| Seunderland | 95 | 0 | / |
| Sonderland | 90 | 79 | / |
| Sumderland | 90 | 3 | / |
| Sunderlane | 90 | 0 | / |
| Sunderlend | 90 | 0 | / |
| Sunderlain | 90 | 0 | / |
| Sundarland | 90 | 0 | / |
| Cunderland | 90 | 0 | / |
| Shinderland | 86 | 0 | / |
| Sunderlon | 84 | 0 | / |
| Zonderland | 80 | 355 | / |
| Sundarlond | 80 | 0 | / |
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