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.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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