# Sudlow (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/sudlow/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname from Old English.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | English |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 452 |
| US rank (2010) | 47,006 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 683,065 people |
| Change since 2000 | +13% (399 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

Habitational surname from a lost place in Cheshire, from Old English sūþ (“south”) + hlǣw (“mountain, mound, hill”).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Sudlow in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 85% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 12% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 1.3% |

## Similar surnames

Sudol, Steele, Stahl, Sotelo, Staley, Still, Stoll, Stull, Seidel, Settle, Steel, Stowell.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.