Given name & surname · also Norwegian
Sunde
“strait, sound”
Sunde is a surname from Norwegian, ultimately from Proto-Germanic.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Sunde goes back to Old Norse sund, meaning “strait, sound.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Sunde comes from Norwegian, and ultimately from Proto-Germanic.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Old Norse sund (“strait, sound”), from Proto-Germanic *sundą.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1986. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Sunde through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5
- 0 boys · 5 girls
- Most popular year
- 1986
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 1986. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,151 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
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