Last Name SWEETMAN

Summary/Contribute


Meaning	The son of Sweetman, the same as Sweet, with the augmentative '-man' appended. Also local, a variant of Swetenham and Swetnam.

Origin	English, Irish, South african

Rank	14,054 (2000 US census)	16,321 (1990 US census)

Count	1,967 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

94.15%, or 1852 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
0.81%, or 16 total occurrences, as black,
0.61%, or 12 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
0.71%, or 14 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
1.98%, or 39 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
1.73%, or 34 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

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