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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (Devon) : habitational name from Sweetlands in Upottery, Devon, so named from Old English swēte ‘sweet’, ‘pleasant’, ‘fertile’ + land ‘cultivated land’, ‘estate’, or possibly a topographic name with the same meaning.

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