Sweeney

50,370 people in the United States were counted with the surname Sweeney in the 2020 census, making it the 660th most common in the country. That is about one person in 5,934.

By the numbers

People: 50,370
Rank: 660th
How common: 1 in 5,934
Per 100,000: 16.9

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

Anglicized form of Irish Ó Suibhne. Compare McSweeney.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Sweeney described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 87.6%
Black, not Hispanic 4.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Sweeney

Sydney Sweeney (born 1997)American actress
D. B. Sweeney (born 1961)American actor
Julia Sweeney (born 1959)American actress, author, comedian
Charles Sweeney (1919–2004)United States general
Tim Sweeney (born 1970)American game developer
Alison Sweeney (born 1976)actress
Joseph Sweeney (1884–1963)American actor
Mike Sweeney (born 1959)Canadian soccer player

People named Sweeney with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Sweeney

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.