Sweed Name Origin, Meaning and Family History

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Surname Distribution

Census frequency by county

Name Concentrations Within England and Wales

England

Bedfordshire 0
Buckinghamshire 0
Berkshire 0
Cambridgeshire 0
Channel Islands 0
Cheshire 0
Cornwall 0
Cumberland 3
Derbyshire 0
Devon 0
Dorset 0
Durham 0
Essex 0
Gloucestershire 0
Hampshire 0
Herefordshire 0
Hertfordshire 0
Huntingdonshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 0
Lancashire 7
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 1
London 3
Middlesex 0
Northumberland 0
Norfolk 1
Northamptonshire 0
Nottinghamshire 0
Oxfordshire 0
Rutland 0
Shropshire 0
Suffolk 10
Somerset 0
Surrey 0
Sussex 1
Staffordshire 0
Warwickshire 0
Westmorland 0
Wiltshire 0
Worcestershire 0
Yorkshire 2

Wales

Anglesey 0
Brecknockshire 0
Cardiganshire 0
Carnarvonshire 0
Carmarthenshire 0
Denbighshire 0
Flintshire 0
Glamorgan 0
Merionethshire 0
Montgomeryshire 0
Monmouthshire 0
Pembrokeshire 0
Radnorshire 0

Sweed Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Sweed family

Profession Census Frequency
Agricultural Labourer 3
Ship Wright 1
Cotton Weaver 1
House Keeper 1
Sp 1
Female Servant 1
Chaff Cutter 1
Male Servant 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Sweed

Name Census Frequency
Mary Sweed 24
John Sweed 22
William Sweed 20
Henry Sweed 14
Ann Sweed 12
Thomas Sweed 12
Elizabeth Sweed 10
James Sweed 10
George Sweed 9
Emma Sweed 7
Sarah Sweed 7
Charles Sweed 6
Ellen Sweed 6
Emily Sweed 6
Amy Sweed 5
Annie Sweed 5
Arthur Sweed 5
Edward Sweed 5
Robert Sweed 5
Albert Sweed 4
Alice Sweed 4
Frederick Sweed 4
Jane Sweed 4
Joseph Sweed 4
Walter Sweed 4

Sweed Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Sweed 100% 350
2 Sawood 50% 249
3 Sowood 50% 237
4 Seawood 43% 145

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The surname Sweed is the most popular version of all its varients

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