Sweat is used as a family name or surname in Ireland, England. It is 5 characters long in length.

Family Name / Last Name: Sweat
No. of characters: 5
Origin: Ireland, England
Meaning:

A variant of Sweetser. A native of Switzerland was formerly called a Switzer; especially one of the hired guards; a mercenary soldier. The Switzers were generally fat men, and hence the distich quoted by Cotgrave:
"A Switzer's bellie and a drunkard's face,
Are no true signes of penitentiall grace."

Family name is a variation of Sweet. 1. See Suctt.

2. Probably an Anglo-Saxon personal name, having reference to character. Sweeting and Sweetlove seem to belong to the same class.

Lastname is form of Swett. Amiable.

Sweat is a form of Sweetser. One who came from Switzerland; an agreable, elderly person.

The family name Sweat is a variation of Sweet. The dear, or beloved, person; descendant of Swet meaning "agrreable".

Lastname is variant of Swett. Descendant of Swet meaning "agreeable"; the light-complexioned man; the son of Witte meaning "white".

How popular is Sweat?

Sweat is common in United States, Israel.

Sweat is ranked 45432 on our list.

Despite the fact that the number of Sweat bearers increased by 5.93 per cent in 2010 US census to 9194 since 2000, the surname slipped by 104 spots and ranked at 3856. The last name was found in around 3 per hundred thousand population. Please refer to following table for race and ethnicity.

Race 2010 2000
White 74.69 77.59
Black 18.85 17.65
Others 2.19 1.74
Hispanic or Latino 2.01 1.23
American Indian and Alaska Native 1.94 1.59
Asian and Native Hawaiian
& Other Pacific Islander		 0.33 0.2
Sweat is quite popular last name mostly concentrated in United States which signifies that it is originated from United States. Around 11430 people have been found who wears Sweat as their family name. Sweat is used widely across the globe. More detailed information can be found below:
RankCountryCount
Countries with ten thousands of Sweat:
4,061 United States11,140
Countries with hundreds of Sweat:
5,635 Israel207
Countries with very low frequency i.e., 10 - 50:
161,175 Canada13
578,870 India12
Countries with very very low frequency i.e., 6 - 10:
184,742 England8
97,905 Zimbabwe7

Sweat Namesakes

  • Lorenzo De Medici Sweat, U.S. Representative from Maine
  • Noah S. Sweat, Noah S. "Soggy" Sweat, Jr
  • Keith Sweat, American singer, songwriter, record producer

Sweat Namesakes

  • Lorenzo De Medici Sweat, U.S. Representative from Maine
  • Noah S. Sweat, Noah S. "Soggy" Sweat, Jr
  • Keith Sweat, American singer, songwriter, record producer

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