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    The surname Swails

    A surname, carried by 1,064 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex S420

    Swails: #23,768 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Swails #23,768, 1,064 people Swails: #23,768 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Swails #23,768, 1,064 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Swails is more common than 85.4% of them.

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,064 people named Swails in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 290,174 Americans. That is up 1.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,047.

    #23,768
    rank among US surnames
    1,064
    people in 2010
    0.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +1.6%
    change since 2000 (was #22,833)

    Who is named Swails

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

    82% of people named Swails identified as white (not Hispanic), 13% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.5% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 82%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 13%
    • Two or more races 2.5%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.6%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Swails

    Swails has the Soundex code S420, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S420.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Swails?
    1,064 people in the United States had the surname Swails in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 290,174 Americans. It ranked 23,768th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Swails?
    In the 2010 Census, 82% of people named Swails identified as white (not Hispanic), and 13% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Swails getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,047 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,064 in 2010, up 1.6%.