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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish and English : occupational name for a cobbler or shoemaker, Middle English soutere, sutere (from Latin sutor, an agent derivative of suere ‘to sew’).
  • Altered spelling of the German cognate Sauter, or of Suter.

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