The surname Swaby
A Norse place surname, carried by 1,509 people in the United States.
Pronounced /ˈsweɪbi/ 2 syllables Soundex S100
Origin
Norse origin
From the Old Norse ethnic byname Sváfi (“Swabian”) + býr (“farm, settlement”).
Swaby is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
One of 126 Norse surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,509 people named Swaby in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 204,603 Americans. That is up 33% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,134.
Who is named Swaby
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
77% of people named Swaby identified as Black (not Hispanic), 15% as white (not Hispanic) and 4.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- Black (not Hispanic) 77%
- White (not Hispanic) 15%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4.9%
- Two or more races 3.0%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Variant spellings
- Swabey
Surnames that sound like Swaby
Swaby has the Soundex code S100, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S100.
Other Norse surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Swaby come from?
- From the Old Norse ethnic byname Sváfi (“Swabian”) + býr (“farm, settlement”).
- How common is the surname Swaby?
- 1,509 people in the United States had the surname Swaby in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 204,603 Americans. It ranked 18,354th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Swaby?
- In the 2010 Census, 77% of people named Swaby identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 15% as white (not Hispanic).
- How do you pronounce Swaby?
- Swaby is /ˈsweɪbi/, 2 syllables.
- What type of surname is Swaby?
- Swaby is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
- Is the surname Swaby getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,134 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,509 in 2010, up 33%.
- What are other spellings of Swaby?
- Swabey.