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    The surname Swim

    A surname, carried by 1,713 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex S500

    Swim: #16,707 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Swim #16,707, 1,713 people Swim: #16,707 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Swim #16,707, 1,713 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Swim is more common than 89.7% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,713 people named Swim in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 180,237 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 1,717.

    #16,707
    rank among US surnames
    1,713
    people in 2010
    0.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    -0.2%
    change since 2000 (was #15,627)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #16,704Guidroz1,714180,132
    #16,707Nyquist1,713180,237
    #16,716Rasor1,712180,342

    Who is named Swim

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

    92% of people named Swim identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.4% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 92%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 3.4%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.2%
    • Two or more races 1.2%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Variant spellings

    • Swims

    Surnames that sound like Swim

    Swim has the Soundex code S500, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S500.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Swim?
    1,713 people in the United States had the surname Swim in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 180,237 Americans. It ranked 16,707th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Swim?
    In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Swim identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.4% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Swim getting more or less common?
    Less common. 1,717 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,713 in 2010, down 0.2%.
    What are other spellings of Swim?
    Swims.