Sweet

Sweet is the 1,189th most common surname in the United States, shared by 28,989 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 10,300.

By the numbers

People: 28,989
Rank: 1,189th
How common: 1 in 10,300
Per 100,000: 9.7

Where the name comes from

As an English surname, from the adjective sweet.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 82.0%
Black, not Hispanic 8.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.4%
Hispanic or Latino 4.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%

Notable people called Sweet

Blanche Sweet (1896–1986)American actress
Henry Sweet (1845–1912)British linguist
Julie Sweet (born 1967)American business executive and attorney
Robert Sweet (1783–1835)British botanist
William Sweet (born 1955)Canadian political philosopher
Anni B Sweet (born 1987)Spanish singer

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

Surnames like Sweet

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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.