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    The surname Swainston

    An English place surname, carried by 538 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex S523

    Swainston: #40,610 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Swainston #40,610, 538 people Swainston: #40,610 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Swainston #40,610, 538 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Swainston is more common than 75% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    Habitational surname from a minor place in the parish of Elwick, County Durham, from the Old Norse personal name Sveinn + -s- + Old English tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

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

    One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 538 people named Swainston in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 573,876 Americans. That is up 14% since 2000, when the Census counted 473.

    #40,610
    rank among US surnames
    538
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +13.7%
    change since 2000 (was #43,058)

    Who is named Swainston

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

    95% of people named Swainston identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 95%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.7%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American, Multiracial are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Swainston come from?
    Habitational surname from a minor place in the parish of Elwick, County Durham, from the Old Norse personal name Sveinn + -s- + Old English tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
    How common is the surname Swainston?
    538 people in the United States had the surname Swainston in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 573,876 Americans. It ranked 40,610th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Swainston?
    In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Swainston identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    What type of surname is Swainston?
    Swainston is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Swainston getting more or less common?
    More common. 473 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 538 in 2010, up 14%.