# Sweetland (surname)

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

A surname from Old English.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | English |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 1,135 |
| US rank (2010) | 22,618 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 272,023 people |
| Change since 2000 | +12% (1,012 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | Swetland |

## Etymology

Habitational surname from a minor place in Devon, from Old English swēte (“sweet”) + land (“land”).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Sweetland 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) | 90% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 3.2% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 3.1% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.9% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 1.1% |
| Two or more races | 2.3% |

## Similar surnames

Steelman, Scotland, Stallings, Stillman, Stalnaker, Stallman, Stahlman, Sotolongo, Stelling, Stalling, Stallone, Stillings.

## 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.