as a Last Name
- 28,894
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Sweet
Meaning & Origins
English (most common in the West Country): nickname from Middle English swete ‘sweet’, ‘pleasant’, ‘agreeable’. The Old English bynames Swēt(a) (masculine) and Swēte (feminine) derived from this word survived into the early Middle English period, and may also be sources of the surname.
| 1,048th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 28,894
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Vermont
- has the most people named Sweet per capita
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