Sunderland Surname

39,249th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 13,380 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
United States
Highest density in:
Isle of Man

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.

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Sunderland Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States6,5831:55,0606,571
England3,6281:15,3582,251
Australia1,4001:19,2832,665
Canada7191:51,2466,183
Ireland2941:16,0171,777
New Zealand2381:19,0273,347
Mexico951:1,306,59215,115
Scotland921:58,1944,808
Wales701:44,2084,243
South Africa361:1,504,93677,557
France321:2,075,710171,237
Russia191:7,585,424283,555
Thailand181:3,924,352328,346
Belgium151:766,44363,354
Germany131:6,192,728213,814
Switzerland121:684,41046,196
Denmark101:564,47234,222
Poland101:3,800,875132,137
Brazil101:21,407,433350,627
Malaysia81:3,686,778134,908
Isle of Man71:12,2602,387
Netherlands71:2,412,45494,797
Norway71:734,61250,907
Argentina61:7,123,902190,047
Hong Kong51:1,467,0975,611
Northern Ireland41:461,25916,615
Bahrain41:337,1526,054
China41:341,830,39216,990
Singapore41:1,376,92628,409
Japan31:42,614,76459,022
Italy21:30,578,344160,757
South Korea21:25,620,1284,175
Vietnam21:46,323,0275,235
Trinidad and Tobago11:1,363,97522,013
Algeria11:38,631,551130,422
Kazakhstan11:17,682,496204,010
Bahamas11:391,7512,737
Kuwait11:3,800,69427,187
Bermuda11:65,2793,010
United States Virgin Islands11:110,3756,934
Israel11:8,557,634182,558
United Arab Emirates11:9,162,273135,437
Turkey11:77,821,422191,047
Panama11:3,912,25817,195
Cuba11:11,522,71617,380
Tanzania11:52,941,613123,716
Ecuador11:15,905,84650,210
Sri Lanka11:20,808,56018,521
Spain11:46,752,036156,870
Finland11:5,496,70284,025
Mozambique11:27,261,5697,432
Gibraltar11:33,9541,660
Greece11:11,079,790145,225
Indonesia11:132,249,194811,426
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Ireland2021:21,9302,482
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England3,4061:7,1571,110
Scotland241:155,9676,425
Wales81:196,0527,186
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States1,2421:40,4344,751

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.

A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames (1896) by Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley

(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.

Surnames of the United Kingdom (1912) by Henry Harrison

Local. A seaport town in the county of Durham, England. Land separated, divided, parted.

An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names (1857) by William Arthur

(English), Freehold land. (variant: Sonderland.)

Surnames (1857) by Bernard Homer Dixon

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.

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