The SWINTON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	2,773	10606	0.001	10
United States (1880 census)	529	9241	0.001	11
Change since 1880	+2244	-1365	0	-1
Other Countries
Australia	335	4705	0.002	20
United Kingdom	722	6753	0.002	16

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.

Classification and Origin of SWINTON

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 SWINTON 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 SWINTON 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 SWINTON in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Caucasian)	737	26.58
Mixed Race	52	1.88
White (Hispanic)	21	0.76
Black/African American	1,950	70.32
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 SWINTON surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of SWINTON in historical publications

SWINTON. 1. Two townships and a chapelry in Yorkshh-e. 2. The Swintons of Swinton Bank, co. Peebles, derive their origin from the Ijarony of Swinton in Berwickshire, and from a Saxon proprietor called Edulphus dc Swinton, who flourished in the reigns of Macbeth and Malcolm Canmore. B.L.G. The family, who continue to write themselves ' of that Ilk,' have numbered some distinguished military men. among whom stands conspicuous Sir John Swinton, who, at the battle of Beauge in France, killed the Duke of Clarence, brother of King Henry V. "And Swinton placed tlie lance in rest, Tliat iiumbled erst the sparkling crest Of Clarence's I'lantagenet."

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 SWINTON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as SWINTON.

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.