The surname Swigart
A German surname, carried by 1,900 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex S263
Origin
German origin
Perhaps an Americanized spelling of German Schweighardt or Zweigert.
One of 1,101 German surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,900 people named Swigart in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 162,498 Americans. That is down 4.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,996.
Who is named Swigart
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
95% of people named Swigart identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.6% as two or more races and 1.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 95%
- Two or more races 1.6%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.5%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
- Black (not Hispanic) 0.4%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Surnames that sound like Swigart
Swigart has the Soundex code S263, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S263.
Other German surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Swigart come from?
- Perhaps an Americanized spelling of German Schweighardt or Zweigert.
- How common is the surname Swigart?
- 1,900 people in the United States had the surname Swigart in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 162,498 Americans. It ranked 15,418th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Swigart?
- In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Swigart identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.6% as two or more races.
- Is the surname Swigart getting more or less common?
- Less common. 1,996 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,900 in 2010, down 4.8%.