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Family name origins & meanings
- Swedish and Danish : from sund ‘strait’, ‘sound’, probably an arbitrarily adopted or ornamental surname, but possibly a topographic name adopted by someone who lived near the shore by a strait.
- Norwegian : habitational name from any of twenty-five or more farmsteads, mainly in Nordland, so named from Old Norse sund ‘strait’, ‘sound’.
- English : nickname for a healthy or prosperous man, from Middle English sund, sound ‘sound’, ‘healthy’.
- English : topographic name from Middle English sund, sound ‘water’, ‘strait’, ‘sound’.