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The souter Surname

souter Name Meaning and History

  1. Scottish and English: occupational name for a cobbler or shoemaker, Middle English soutere, sutere (from Latin sutor, an agent derivative of suere ‘to sew’).
  2. 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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Distribution of souter Families in the US in 1920
Number of souter families
 16-30
 6-15		 1-5
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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