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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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Sweet
Name Distribution of Sweet Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
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
Sweet census records
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Sweet Family Origin
Sweet Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Sweet Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Sweet census records
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