Frequency: (209)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Translation of French Souverain, a topographic name from Old French souverain ‘high place’, or an occupational name for a leader or supervisor or a nickname for a domineering person, from the same word in the sense ‘superior’, ‘director’, ‘chief’.
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