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Sweetcock Surname Definition:
This surname is derived from the name of an ancestor. 'the son of Sweetcock.' The name occurs as a single personal name in the Hundred Rolls. Of course the term is one of endearment originally. 'Nice young fellow' is our modern equivalent (v.
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This surname is derived from the name of an ancestor. 'the son of Sweetcock.' The name occurs as a single personal name in the Hundred Rolls. Of course the term is one of endearment originally. 'Nice young fellow' is our modern equivalent (v. Cocks). The feminine form given below is 'confusion worse confounded.' v. Sweet, and compare Lovecock, frequently found as a baptismal name at the same period.
Adam Swetcoc, Cambridgeshire, 1273. Hundred Rolls.
Swetecoka de Hornden, Close Rolls, 16 Edward I.
(English) = Sweet (q.v.) + the English pet suff. -cock.
Adam Swetcoc.—Hundred Rolls
Phonetically Similar Names
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|---|---|---|---|
| Swieczok | 71 | 1 | / |
| Swietczak | 67 | 77 | / |
| Schwescok | 67 | 1 | / |
| Swietzack | 67 | 1 | / |
| Swieściok | 67 | 1 | / |
| Swietkowiak | 60 | 37 | / |
| Swiatkowiak | 50 | 18 | / |
| Swiętkowiak | 50 | 6 | / |
| Swiątkowiak | 50 | 1 | / |
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