Skip to content
Name Lineage

    The surname Sween

    A Scottish Gaelic surname, carried by 528 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex S500

    Sween: #41,234 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Sween #41,234, 528 people Sween: #41,234 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Sween #41,234, 528 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Sween is more common than 74.6% of them.

    Origin

    Scottish Gaelic origin

    * As an Irish and Scottish Gaelic surname, reduced form of McSween. * As a Norwegian surname, variant of Sveen, from Old Norse svíð (“land cleared by burning”), from svíða (“to burn”).

    One of 277 Scottish Gaelic surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 528 people named Sween in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 584,745 Americans. That is down 5.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 556.

    #41,234
    rank among US surnames
    528
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    -5%
    change since 2000 (was #37,640)

    Who is named Sween

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    90% of people named Sween identified as white (not Hispanic), 7.8% as Black (not Hispanic).

    • White (not Hispanic) 90%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 7.8%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 0.9%
    • Two or more races 0.9%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Sween

    Sween has the Soundex code S500, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S500.

    Other Scottish Gaelic surnames

    All 277 Scottish Gaelic surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Sween come from?
    * As an Irish and Scottish Gaelic surname, reduced form of McSween. * As a Norwegian surname, variant of Sveen, from Old Norse svíð (“land cleared by burning”), from svíða (“to burn”).
    How common is the surname Sween?
    528 people in the United States had the surname Sween in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 584,745 Americans. It ranked 41,234th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Sween?
    In the 2010 Census, 90% of people named Sween identified as white (not Hispanic), and 7.8% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Sween getting more or less common?
    Less common. 556 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 528 in 2010, down 5.0%.