# Sweet (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/sweet/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 30,051 |
| US rank (2010) | 1,169 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 10,274 people |
| Change since 2000 | +4.1% (28,872 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

* As an English surname, from the adjective sweet. * As a German and Jewish surname, translated from Suess, from süß (“sweet”). * As a French surname, translated from Ledoux.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Sweet in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 85% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 8.4% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.8% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.6% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.9% |
| Two or more races | 2.2% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Sweet in the United States, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and Australia.

## People named Sweet

- Blanche Sweet, American actress (1896–1986)
- Julie Sweet, American business executive and attorney
- Robert Sweet, British botanist (1783-1835)
- Rachel Sweet, American singer
- Matthew Sweet, American musician
- Shay Sweet, American pornographic actress
- Harry Sweet, actor, film director and screenwriter (1901-1933)
- Dolph Sweet, American actor (1920-1985)
- Gary Sweet, Australian actor
- Dita Von Teese, American Egyptian burlesque dancer and model (born 1972)

## Similar surnames

Sweat, Sweatt, Swett, Skeete, Scott, Soto, South, Stowe, Schott, Syed, Sato, Shade.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.