Souter (/ˈsuːtər/, SOO-ter) is a Scottish surname derived from the Scots language term for a shoemaker. Notable people with the surname include:

A nickname for any native inhabitant of the Royal Burgh of Selkirk, in the Scottish Borders
Alexander Souter (1873–1949), Scottish biblical scholar
Brian Souter (born 1954), Scottish businessman
Charles Henry Souter (born 1864), Australian poet
Camille Souter (1929–2023), Irish painter
David Souter (born 1939), former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
David Henry Souter (1862–1935), Australian artist and journalist
John Bulloch Souter (1890–1972), a Scottish painter and sculptor
Tom Souter (1912–?), Scottish footballer

v t e Surnames associated with the occupations of cobbler / shoemaker / cordwainer
Celtic	Quéré Gracie, Grassie, Grassick
Germanic	DeSutter/De Sutter, DeZuter, DeZutter, De Zutter Scheemaeckers, Schoenmaker, Schoenmakers Schumacher, Schuhmacher, Schuhmann, Schumaker, Shoemaker, Schoemaker, Schoeman, Schoomaker, Shoemark, Schuster, Shuster (from Schuster), Schumann, Shuman, Shumann, Stiefel, Stiefl, Stifel
Romance	Surnames ultimately from Latin "sutor": Suter, Sutter, Souter, Sauter, Sutar, Soutar, Souttar Sutor De Soto, DeSoto, de Soto, Desoto Scarpa, Scarponi, Calzolaro, Callegari, Calligaris, Calegari, Chaucer, Zangari Cordonnier, Courvoisier, Corvaisier, Le Sueur, Sabatier Crispino Sapateiro, Zapatero Ciubotaru, Ciubotariu (borrowing from Slavic)
Slavic	Chebotar, Chebotaryov (Tschebotarioff), Chebotarenko Cizmar/Čizmar/Čižmár/Čižman Łatacz Sapozhnikov Shvets, Shevchenko, Shevchuk, Shevtsov, Shautsov, Švec, Ševčík (Sevcik, Shevchik), Szewczyk, Sheuchyk Šuštar (from Schuster) Kopitar
Other	from סנדלר; "sandal-maker": HaSandlar, Sandler / Sendler, Skujenieks Suutari Kingsepp Varga Csizmadia

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