Sweetmore Surname

1,202,518th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 196 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
England
Highest density in:
England

Sweetmore Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Sweetmore Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England1801:309,54523,336
Scotland91:594,86921,724
Wales41:773,63329,106
Norway21:2,571,14395,402
United States11:362,458,9331,988,048
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England561:435,27425,262
Scotland111:340,29210,329
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States11:50,218,684817,899

Sweetmore (44) may also be a first name.

Sweetmore Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Sweetmore Come From? nationality or country of origin

The last name Sweetmore has its highest incidence in England. It may be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this name.

How Common Is The Last Name Sweetmore? popularity and diffusion

The surname is the 1,202,518th most commonly used surname at a global level It is held by around 1 in 37,181,357 people. This surname is mostly found in Europe, where 99 percent of Sweetmore live; 99 percent live in Northern Europe and 98 percent live in British Isles. It is also the 1,525,482nd most frequently held first name in the world, held by 44 people.

This surname is most prevalent in England, where it is carried by 180 people, or 1 in 309,545. In England Sweetmore is most numerous in: Derbyshire, where 32 percent live, Nottinghamshire, where 18 percent live and Greater Manchester, where 12 percent live. Outside of England this last name exists in 4 countries. It also occurs in Scotland, where 5 percent live and Wales, where 2 percent live.

Sweetmore Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The incidence of Sweetmore has changed over time. In England the number of people bearing the Sweetmore surname expanded 321 percent between 1881 and 2014; in Scotland it fell 18 percent between 1881 and 2014.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Sweethmore953/
Swetmore9430/
Sweet Moore901/
Sweatmore8949/
Swetmare820/
Sweetmar820/
Sweitmer710/
Swetamari671/
Szetmár639/
Sztimre631/
Swdmeer631/
Swed'aemar631/
Swidmor630/
Szatmarie564/
Sweidmyer560/
Szatmár5069/
Szedmer5036/
Sztymar5012/
Szatmri503/
Czetmer501/

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Footnotes

  • Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
  • Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
  • Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
  • Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
  • Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
  • Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Sweetmore
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