How common is the surname Swafford?

9,369 people in the United States had the surname Swafford in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 32,954 Americans. It ranked 3,777th of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Swafford getting more or less common?

More common. 9,294 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 9,369 in 2010, up 0.8%.

The surname Swafford

A place surname, carried by 9,369 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex S163

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Swafford is more common than 97.7% of them.

Origin

Habitational surname from a lost or unidentified place.

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

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 9,369 people named Swafford in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 32,954 Americans. That is up 0.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 9,294.

#3,777

rank among US surnames

9,369

people in 2010

3.2

per 100,000 Americans

+0.8%

change since 2000 (was #3,514)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#3,768	Neill	9,404	32,831
#3,769	Irvine	9,397	32,856
#3,770	Jolley	9,392	32,873
#3,771	Resendez	9,390	32,880
#3,772	Noland	9,386	32,894
#3,773	Cousins	9,380	32,915
#3,774	Mull	9,377	32,926

Who is named Swafford

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

87% of people named Swafford identified as white (not Hispanic), 7.6% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.1% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 87%
Black (not Hispanic) 7.6%
Two or more races 2.1%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

Swofford

Surnames that sound like Swafford

Swafford has the Soundex code S163, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S163.

Questions

Where does the surname Swafford come from?: Habitational surname from a lost or unidentified place.
How common is the surname Swafford?: 9,369 people in the United States had the surname Swafford in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 32,954 Americans. It ranked 3,777th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Swafford?: In the 2010 Census, 87% of people named Swafford identified as white (not Hispanic), and 7.6% as Black (not Hispanic).
What type of surname is Swafford?: Swafford is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Swafford getting more or less common?: More common. 9,294 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 9,369 in 2010, up 0.8%.
What are other spellings of Swafford?: Swofford.