How common is the surname Sweetland?

1,135 people in the United States had the surname Sweetland in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 272,023 Americans. It ranked 22,618th of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Sweetland getting more or less common?

More common. 1,012 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,135 in 2010, up 12%.

The surname Sweetland

An English place surname, carried by 1,135 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex S345

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Sweetland is more common than 86.1% of them.

Origin

English origin

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

Sweetland is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,135 people named Sweetland in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 272,023 Americans. That is up 12% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,012.

#22,618

rank among US surnames

1,135

people in 2010

0.4

per 100,000 Americans

+12.2%

change since 2000 (was #23,428)

Who is named Sweetland

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

90% of people named Sweetland identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.2% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 90%
Black (not Hispanic) 3.2%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.1%
Two or more races 2.3%
American Indian and Alaska Native 1.1%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.9%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Variant spellings

Swetland

Surnames that sound like Sweetland

Sweetland has the Soundex code S345, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S345.

Other English surnames

All 1,446 English surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Sweetland come from?: Habitational surname from a minor place in Devon, from Old English swēte (“sweet”) + land (“land”).
How common is the surname Sweetland?: 1,135 people in the United States had the surname Sweetland in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 272,023 Americans. It ranked 22,618th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Sweetland?: In the 2010 Census, 90% of people named Sweetland identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.2% as Black (not Hispanic).
What type of surname is Sweetland?: Sweetland is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Sweetland getting more or less common?: More common. 1,012 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,135 in 2010, up 12%.
What are other spellings of Sweetland?: Swetland.