Last Name SWEET

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Meaning	The son of Sweet, analogous to the early ontroduced French 'Douce.' Also nickname, 'the sweet.' 'Swede,' a native of Sweden. 'Swit,' of Switzerland.

Origin	English, Jewish, Greek, Irish, South african

Rank	1,111 (2000 US census)	932 (1990 US census)

Count	28,872 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

87.91%, or 25381 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
7.7%, or 2223 total occurrences, as black,
0.52%, or 150 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
0.7%, or 202 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
1.46%, or 422 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
1.71%, or 494 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

Ukrainian middle names form the same way as Russian ones, except that for girls, the patronymic ending is '-ivna' rather than '-ovna' or '-evna.' Follow the Russian middle names link to get any additional information.

Longest baby names

The longest first name, consisting of 12 characters, from the baby names reported since the year 1880 in the United States is Francisquita.

There are three names consisting of 11 characters: Christopher, Margueritta, and Margueritte

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