How common is the last name Sweet?

28,989 people in the United States have the last name Sweet, about 1 in 10,311. It ranks #1,189 of 156,621 last names in the 2020 Census.

last name

SWEET

#1,189

of 156,621 last names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
28,989
About
1 in 10,311
This common or more
41.7%
Who bears it

Of the 28,989 people with the last name Sweet, 82% reported their origin as White, 8% as Black and 4.4% as two or more races. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Either side of Sweet

#1,187 Whitfield · 29,052#1,188 Kendall · 28,998#1,190 Welsh · 28,953#1,191 Duong · 28,934

Spelled almost the same

3 last names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Sweet, most common first.

#4,012 Sweat · 8,591#10,583 Swett · 2,890#61,433 Sweed · 353

Also a first name

As a first name, Sweet ranks #23,767 of 53,615, with 410 people. See Sweet as a first name

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