English: habitational name from any of the three places in West
Yorkshire, so named from Old English suð ‘south’ +
clif ‘riverbank’, ‘slope’, ‘cliff’, or a topographic name with
the same meaning.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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