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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : nickname for a kindly master, from Middle English swete ‘sweet’, ‘pleasant’, ‘agreeable’ + sire, sier ‘master’ (often used to address an older man).
  • Possibly an Americanized spelling of German and Jewish Schweitzer.

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