The SWAIM surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	5,104	6180	0.002	19
United States (1880 census)	991	5497	0.002	20
Change since 1880	+4113	-683	0	-1
Other Countries
Australia	0			0
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for SWAIM by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
North Carolina	1,004	1135	0.012	125
Texas	590	3589	0.003	28
California	453	5840	0.001	13
Arkansas	272	1229	0.010	102
Indiana	223	3248	0.004	37
Top States for SWAIM by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
North Carolina	1,004	1135	0.012	125
Arkansas	272	1229	0.010	102
Oklahoma	162	2760	0.005	47
Alabama	188	3037	0.004	42
Iowa	119	3277	0.004	41

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of SWAIM

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Germany

Language of origin: German

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the SWAIM surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of SWAIM in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	64	1.25
Native American/Alaskan	50	0.98
Mixed Race	49	0.96
Black/African American	38	0.74
Asian/Pacific	22	0.43
White (Caucasian)	4,881	95.63

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

Similar names to SWAIM

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as SWAIM.

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.