Sweet Family History
Sweet Name Meaning
English (most common in the West Country): nickname from Middle
English swete ‘sweet’, ‘pleasant’, ‘agreeable’. The Old English
bynames Swet(a) (masculine) and Swete (feminine)
derived from this word survived into the early Middle English period,
and may also be sources of the surname.Translation of
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) Suess.In New
England, a translation of French Ledoux.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Sweet Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Sweet families
 412 - 821  138 - 411 |
 1 - 137  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Sweet families
|
274 - 546 92 - 273 |
1 - 91 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Sweet families
|
23 - 43 8 - 22 |
1 - 7 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Sweet Family Origin
Sweet Immigration Information
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Sweet Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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