The Swett Family Name

Seen on a birth certificate or a ship's manifest, Swett is usually a form of Sweet. The family name meaning is “Pleasant, agreeable”, the same as for Sweet.

Heraldry and the Swett name

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A variant of Sweet

Before spelling was fixed, Sweet was also written Swett. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them. The same family of names includes Swete and Sweete.

The 2010 US Census counted 3,384 people named Swett, ranking it number 9,603 among American surnames. That puts it among the top 10,000 US surnames. Research your Swett family history with a full surname report and painted coat of arms.