How common is the surname Swearingen?

7,872 people in the United States had the surname Swearingen in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 39,221 Americans. It ranked 4,506th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Swearingen?

In the 2010 Census, 91% of people named Swearingen identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Swearingen getting more or less common?

More common. 7,641 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 7,872 in 2010, up 3.0%.

The surname Swearingen

A surname, carried by 7,872 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex S652

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Swearingen is more common than 97.2% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 7,872 people named Swearingen in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 39,221 Americans. That is up 3.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 7,641.

#4,506

rank among US surnames

7,872

people in 2010

2.7

per 100,000 Americans

+3%

change since 2000 (was #4,292)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#4,498	Garman	7,884	39,161
#4,500	Sanches	7,883	39,166
#4,501	Gunther	7,882	39,171
#4,502	Ethridge	7,878	39,191
#4,503	Arriola	7,877	39,196
#4,504	Heilman	7,876	39,201
#4,505	Prentice	7,874	39,211

Who is named Swearingen

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

91% of people named Swearingen identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 2.8% as Black (not Hispanic).

White (not Hispanic) 91%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.9%
Black (not Hispanic) 2.8%
Two or more races 2.1%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.8%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Swearingen

Swearengin

Swearingen has the Soundex code S652, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S652.

Questions

How common is the surname Swearingen?: 7,872 people in the United States had the surname Swearingen in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 39,221 Americans. It ranked 4,506th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Swearingen?: In the 2010 Census, 91% of people named Swearingen identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Swearingen getting more or less common?: More common. 7,641 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 7,872 in 2010, up 3.0%.