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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (East Anglia) : nickname for a clever person, from Anglo-Norman French sotil ‘subtle’, ‘clever’, ‘cunning’.
  • English (East Anglia) : habitational name from Soothill in West Yorkshire.

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