Swettenham

• (surname): Sweetnam, Swetenham, Swetnam

From the genitive form of the Old English personal name Sweta + hām (“homestead”) or hamm (“water meadow”).

Swettenham (countable and uncountable, plural Swettenhams)

1. A village and civil parish in Cheshire East district, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ800671).
2. A habitational surname from Old English.

• Port Swettenham

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Swettenham is the 23763^rd most common surname in England, belonging to 175 individuals.

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Swettenham”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.