How common is the surname Swiger?

3,758 people in the United States had the surname Swiger in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 82,157 Americans. It ranked 8,727th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Swiger?

In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Swiger identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Swiger getting more or less common?

More common. 3,697 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,758 in 2010, up 1.6%.

The surname Swiger

A surname, carried by 3,758 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex S260

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Swiger is more common than 94.6% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 3,758 people named Swiger in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 82,157 Americans. That is up 1.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,697.

#8,727

rank among US surnames

3,758

people in 2010

1.3

per 100,000 Americans

+1.6%

change since 2000 (was #8,245)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#8,720	Ortez	3,762	82,070
#8,723	Glasscock	3,761	82,091
#8,724	Grundy	3,759	82,135
#8,727	Swiger	3,758	82,157
#8,728	Werth	3,757	82,179
#8,732	Chien	3,756	82,201

Who is named Swiger

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

96% of people named Swiger identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.3% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.6%
Two or more races 1.3%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Swiger

Swiger has the Soundex code S260, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S260.

Questions

How common is the surname Swiger?: 3,758 people in the United States had the surname Swiger in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 82,157 Americans. It ranked 8,727th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Swiger?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Swiger identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Swiger getting more or less common?: More common. 3,697 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,758 in 2010, up 1.6%.