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    The surname Schwing

    A surname, carried by 1,566 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex S520

    Schwing: #17,864 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Schwing #17,864, 1,566 people Schwing: #17,864 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Schwing #17,864, 1,566 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Schwing is more common than 89% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,566 people named Schwing in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 197,156 Americans. That is up 20% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,303.

    #17,864
    rank among US surnames
    1,566
    people in 2010
    0.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    +20.2%
    change since 2000 (was #19,248)

    Who is named Schwing

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    95% of people named Schwing identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.0% as two or more races and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 95%
    • Two or more races 2.0%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.6%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Schwing

    Schwing has the Soundex code S520, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S520.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Schwing?
    1,566 people in the United States had the surname Schwing in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 197,156 Americans. It ranked 17,864th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Schwing?
    In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Schwing identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as two or more races.
    Is the surname Schwing getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,303 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,566 in 2010, up 20%.