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The SWORD surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 3,173 9408 0.001 12
United States (1880 census) 430 10867 0.001 9
Change since 1880 +2743 +1459 0 +3
Other Countries
Australia 71 19159 0 4
United Kingdom 0 0
Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Classification and Origin of SWORD

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the SWORD surname.

Ethnic distribution of SWORD in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 82 2.58
Mixed Race 62 1.95
White (Hispanic) 44 1.39
Native American/Alaskan 16 0.5
Asian/Pacific 15 0.47
White (Caucasian) 2,954 93.1

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the SWORD surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

SWORD is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of SWORD in historical publications

SWORD. From the weapon. It has several compounds, us Brownsword, Greensword, Longsword, &c.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to SWORD

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as SWORD.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for SWORD

The following words are slight variants of SWORD that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.