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The surname Sweetman

A surname, carried by 1,987 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex S355

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Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Sweetman is more common than 90.8% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,987 people named Sweetman in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 155,383 Americans. That is up 1.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,967.

#14,893
rank among US surnames
1,987
people in 2010
0.7
per 100,000 Americans
+1%
change since 2000 (was #14,054)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#14,893Sweetman1,987155,383
#14,902Enderle1,986155,461

Who is named Sweetman

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

94% of people named Sweetman identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.7% as two or more races.

  • White (not Hispanic) 94%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
  • Two or more races 1.7%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.1%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 0.7%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Sweetman

Sweetman has the Soundex code S355, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S355.

Questions

How common is the surname Sweetman?
1,987 people in the United States had the surname Sweetman in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 155,383 Americans. It ranked 14,893rd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Sweetman?
In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Sweetman identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Sweetman getting more or less common?
More common. 1,967 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,987 in 2010, up 1.0%.