Last name: SWEET
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SWEET : This last name is indexed 116,570 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
SWEET : 1: English (Somerset): from the Middle English personal name Swet(e) (Old English Swēt(a) (male) Swēte (female)) or else a nickname from Middle English swet(e) sweyt ‘sweet; pleasing; beloved; attractive’ (Old English swēte swōt) from which the personal names derive. Compare Swett.2: Americanized form (translation into English) of German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) Suess and French Ledoux ‘the gentle the sweet’.
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