How common is the surname Swindle?

4,793 people in the United States had the surname Swindle in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 64,416 Americans. It ranked 6,989th of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Swindle getting more or less common?

More common. 4,753 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,793 in 2010, up 0.8%.

The surname Swindle

A surname, carried by 4,793 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex S534

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Swindle is more common than 95.7% of them.

Origin

* As an English surname, variant of Swindell. * As a German surname, Americanized from Schwindell, a diminutive of the lost Middle High German adjective swinde (“impetuous, wild”).

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 4,793 people named Swindle in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 64,416 Americans. That is up 0.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,753.

#6,989

rank among US surnames

4,793

people in 2010

1.6

per 100,000 Americans

+0.8%

change since 2000 (was #6,574)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#6,980	Gilbreath	4,804	64,268
#6,982	Herd	4,803	64,282
#6,983	O'Meara	4,801	64,309
#6,984	Corso	4,798	64,349
#6,985	Eberly	4,796	64,376
#6,987	Sidhu	4,795	64,389
#6,988	Ewell	4,794	64,402

Who is named Swindle

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

85% of people named Swindle identified as white (not Hispanic), 11% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 85%
Black (not Hispanic) 11%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
Two or more races 1.7%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Swindle

Swindle has the Soundex code S534, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S534.

Questions

Where does the surname Swindle come from?: * As an English surname, variant of Swindell. * As a German surname, Americanized from Schwindell, a diminutive of the lost Middle High German adjective swinde (“impetuous, wild”).
How common is the surname Swindle?: 4,793 people in the United States had the surname Swindle in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 64,416 Americans. It ranked 6,989th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Swindle?: In the 2010 Census, 85% of people named Swindle identified as white (not Hispanic), and 11% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Swindle getting more or less common?: More common. 4,753 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,793 in 2010, up 0.8%.