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    The surname Swackhamer

    A German place surname, carried by 454 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex S256

    Swackhamer: #46,811 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Swackhamer #46,811, 454 people Swackhamer: #46,811 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Swackhamer #46,811, 454 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Swackhamer is more common than 71.1% of them.

    Origin

    German origin

    Possibly from German Schwaikheimer, from Schwaikheim, a town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

    Swackhamer is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    One of 1,101 German surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 454 people named Swackhamer in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 680,056 Americans. That is down 1.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 460.

    #46,811
    rank among US surnames
    454
    people in 2010
    0.1
    per 100,000 Americans
    -1.3%
    change since 2000 (was #44,103)

    Who is named Swackhamer

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

    97% of people named Swackhamer identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 97%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Asian & Pacific Islander, Multiracial are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Other German surnames

    All 1,101 German surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Swackhamer come from?
    Possibly from German Schwaikheimer, from Schwaikheim, a town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
    How common is the surname Swackhamer?
    454 people in the United States had the surname Swackhamer in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 680,056 Americans. It ranked 46,811th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Swackhamer?
    In the 2010 Census, 97% of people named Swackhamer identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    What type of surname is Swackhamer?
    Swackhamer is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Swackhamer getting more or less common?
    Less common. 460 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 454 in 2010, down 1.3%.