Thegens Surdinia was an obscureplebeian family atancient Rome. Hardly any members of thisgens are mentioned in ancient writers, but several are known from inscriptions.

ThenomenSurdinius belongs to a class of gentilicia derived from surnames ending in the diminutive suffix-inus.^[1] The root of the name,surdus, originally referred to someonedeaf ordumb.^[2] As acognomen, it belongs to a large class of surnames based on a person's physical traits or characteristics.^[3]

• Surdinia, the granddaughter of Horatius Martialis Rufinus, a woman of asenatorial family, named in an inscription fromVaga inAfrica Proconsularis.^[4][5][6]
• Surdinia Aphrodisia, buried atMediolanum inTransalpine Gaul.^[7]
• Surdinius Felix, acenturion in theCohors I Sardorum, one of theauxiliae stationed inSardinia during the latter half of the first century, or the first half of the third, together with his wife, Maximilla, dedicated a tomb atCarales for their foster son, whose name has not been preserved.^[8]
• Surdinius Gallus, met the property qualifications to join theRoman senate in AD 47, at a time when Claudius was clearing that body of paupers. Gallus had gone to settle atCarthage, but Claudius recalled him to serve in the senate, promising to "bind him with golden fetters".^{[9][10][11][12]}
• Surdinia Rogatula, a girl buried atSigus inNumidia, aged twelve, along with Valia Matrona, aged thirty-seven.^[13]
• Lucius Surdinius Saturninus, a soldier buried atMisenum inCampania, aged forty, having served for nineteen years, in a second-century tomb dedicated by his mother, Clodia Secunda.^[14]

• List of Roman gentes

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• Roman gentes

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