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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : from a medieval personal name, originally an Old English patronymic from Swēt(a) (see Sweet).
  • English : from Middle English sweting ‘darling’, ‘sweetheart’, hence a nickname for a popular and attractive person, or for somebody who habitually addressed people with the term.

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