# Sunde (surname)

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

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | Norse |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 1,293 |
| US rank (2010) | 20,512 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 238,782 people |
| Change since 2000 | +3.9% (1,244 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

From the Norwegian surname named after several farmsteads, from Old Norse sund (“strait, sound”), from Proto-Germanic *sundą.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Sunde 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) | 92% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 1.0% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.1% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 1.6% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 1.0% |
| Two or more races | 2.1% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Sunde in Norway.

## People named Sunde

- Olav Sunde, athletics competitor (1903–1985)

## Similar surnames

Sunday, Sande, Sund, Smith, Schmidt, Schmitt, Sneed, Schmid, Snead, Smyth, Smoot, Santoyo.

## 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.