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    The surname Swindler

    A surname, carried by 1,690 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex S534

    Swindler: #16,868 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Swindler #16,868, 1,690 people Swindler: #16,868 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Swindler #16,868, 1,690 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Swindler is more common than 89.6% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,690 people named Swindler in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 182,690 Americans. That is up 12% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,503.

    #16,868
    rank among US surnames
    1,690
    people in 2010
    0.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    +12.4%
    change since 2000 (was #17,334)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #16,860Cermak1,692182,474
    #16,864Doyal1,691182,582
    #16,868Chmiel1,690182,690
    #16,876Melnik1,689182,798

    Who is named Swindler

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

    81% of people named Swindler identified as white (not Hispanic), 14% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.1% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 81%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 14%
    • Two or more races 2.1%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.5%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.1%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.8%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Famous Swindlers

    1 notable person on Wikidata, most written-about first

    • Mary Hamilton Swindler
      American archaeologist and classical art scholar, 1884–1967

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Swindler

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

    Questions

    How common is the surname Swindler?
    1,690 people in the United States had the surname Swindler in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 182,690 Americans. It ranked 16,868th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Swindler?
    In the 2010 Census, 81% of people named Swindler identified as white (not Hispanic), and 14% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Who is the most famous person named Swindler?
    Mary Hamilton Swindler, American archaeologist and classical art scholar.
    Where is the surname Swindler most common?
    Wikidata records people named Swindler in the United States.
    Is the surname Swindler getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,503 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,690 in 2010, up 12%.