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The SWAILS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,047 22833 0 4
United States (1880 census) 217 18137 0 4
Change since 1880 +830 -4696 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 7 116514 0 0
United Kingdom 2 34979 0 0
Top States for SWAILS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Florida 138 13237 0.001 9
Georgia 99 7124 0.001 12
South Carolina 97 4859 0.002 24
Indiana 95 7912 0.002 16
North Carolina 69 9281 0.001 9
Top States for SWAILS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Carolina 97 4859 0.002 24
Iowa 62 7584 0.002 21
Indiana 95 7912 0.002 16
Nebraska 23 12337 0.001 13
Georgia 99 7124 0.001 12

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.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called SWAILS live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called SWAILS represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called SWAILS in Florida than any other state, but you are more likely to find a SWAILS by picking someone at random in South Carolina than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of SWAILS

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

Ethnic distribution of SWAILS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 899 85.86
Black/African American 108 10.32
Mixed Race 15 1.43
White (Hispanic) 14 1.34
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of SWAILS in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of SWAILS.

Similar names to SWAILS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as SWAILS.

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 SWAILS

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