The SWAIN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	24,220	1338	0.009	90
United States (1880 census)	6,377	953	0.013	128
Change since 1880	+17843	-385	-0.004	-38
Other Countries
Australia	1,631	999	0.01	100
United Kingdom	7,913	781	0.017	172

Top States for SWAIN by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Florida	1,780	1203	0.011	111
California	1,703	1964	0.005	50
North Carolina	1,687	726	0.021	210
Ohio	1,428	946	0.013	126
Georgia	1,358	829	0.017	166
Top States for SWAIN by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Delaware	236	558	0.030	301
Alabama	1,298	602	0.029	292
New Hampshire	284	697	0.023	230
North Carolina	1,687	726	0.021	210
Georgia	1,358	829	0.017	166

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

Classification and Origin of SWAIN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the SWAIN 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.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the SWAIN surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of SWAIN in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	465	1.92
White (Hispanic)	378	1.56
Native American/Alaskan	167	0.69
Asian/Pacific	155	0.64
White (Caucasian)	16,821	69.45
Black/African American	6,232	25.73

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

Similar names to SWAIN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as SWAIN.

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.