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The SWIM surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,717 15627 0.001 6
United States (1880 census) 438 10739 0.001 9
Change since 1880 +1279 -4888 0 -3
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for SWIM by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 154 16809 0.000 5
Texas 121 14166 0.001 6
Kentucky 98 4752 0.002 24
Indiana 97 8101 0.002 16
Colorado 96 6210 0.002 22
Top States for SWIM by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
West Virginia 55 3757 0.003 30
Iowa 86 5580 0.003 29
Nebraska 48 5982 0.003 28
Kentucky 98 4752 0.002 24
Vermont 14 6921 0.002 23

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

Classification and Origin of SWIM

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

Ethnic distribution of SWIM in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 43 2.5
Mixed Race 31 1.81
White (Hispanic) 23 1.34
Asian/Pacific 22 1.28
Native American/Alaskan 11 0.64
White (Caucasian) 1,587 92.43

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

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

Meaning of SWIM in historical publications

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

Similar names to SWIM

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as SWIM.

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 SWIM

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