Meaning and Origin of: Sutherland

Boy name origins & meanings

  • Norse : From the southern land

Boy name variations

Sutton
Sutcliff
Suffield
Sundy

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish : regional name from the former county of this name, so named from Old Norse suðr ‘south’ + land ‘land’ because the territory lay south of Scandinavia and the Norse colonies in the Orkney and Shetland Islands.

Famous people with this last name

Donald Sutherland
Kiefer Sutherland