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The SWAYNE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,689 15825 0.001 6
United States (1880 census) 579 8579 0.001 12
Change since 1880 +1110 -7246 0 -6
Other Countries
Australia 36 32931 0 2
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 SWAYNE

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

Ethnic distribution of SWAYNE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 341 20.19
Mixed Race 50 2.96
White (Hispanic) 47 2.78
Asian/Pacific 11 0.65
Native American/Alaskan 6 0.36
White (Caucasian) 1,234 73.06

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

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

Meaning of SWAYNE in historical publications

SWADTE. SWAYNE. L A Scandinavian personal name of great antiquity, introduced here under the Danish rule. Domesday shows us several persons (tenants in chief and otherwise) called Svain,Suain, Suanus, Suuen, Swen or Sueno, some of whom are specifically stated to have held lands under Edward the Confessor. Suain of Essex, supposed by Morant to have been of Danish origin, was ancestor of the famous Henry de Essex, temp. Henry II. 2. The A-Sax. sivaii : see previous article. Tlie forms in the Eotuli Hundredorum are Le Swein, Le Sweyn, and Sweyn.

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 SWAYNE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as SWAYNE.

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 SWAYNE

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