How common is the surname Sweigart?

2,658 people in the United States had the surname Sweigart in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 116,157 Americans. It ranked 11,789th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Sweigart?

In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Sweigart identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Sweigart getting more or less common?

Less common. 2,701 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,658 in 2010, down 1.6%.

The surname Sweigart

A surname, carried by 2,658 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex S263

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Sweigart is more common than 92.7% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,658 people named Sweigart in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 116,157 Americans. That is down 1.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,701.

#11,789

rank among US surnames

2,658

people in 2010

0.9

per 100,000 Americans

-1.6%

change since 2000 (was #10,831)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#11,781	Saha	2,660	116,070
#11,783	Robeson	2,659	116,113
#11,789	Sweigart	2,658	116,157
#11,792	Grossi	2,657	116,201
#11,793	Leavell	2,656	116,245
#11,797	Borman	2,655	116,288

Who is named Sweigart

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

96% of people named Sweigart identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
Two or more races 1.0%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.4%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Sweigart

Sweigart has the Soundex code S263, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S263.

Questions

How common is the surname Sweigart?: 2,658 people in the United States had the surname Sweigart in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 116,157 Americans. It ranked 11,789th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Sweigart?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Sweigart identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Sweigart getting more or less common?: Less common. 2,701 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,658 in 2010, down 1.6%.