The surname Swinford
An English place surname, carried by 3,170 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex S516
Origin
English origin
From Old English swīn (“swine, pig”) + ford.
Swinford is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 3,170 people named Swinford in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 97,396 Americans. That is down 1.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,213.
Who is named Swinford
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
95% of people named Swinford identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.4% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 95%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
- Two or more races 1.4%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 1.2%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
- Black (not Hispanic) 0.2%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Surnames that sound like Swinford
Swinford has the Soundex code S516, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S516.
Other English surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Swinford come from?
- From Old English swīn (“swine, pig”) + ford.
- How common is the surname Swinford?
- 3,170 people in the United States had the surname Swinford in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 97,396 Americans. It ranked 10,176th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Swinford?
- In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Swinford identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- What type of surname is Swinford?
- Swinford is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
- Is the surname Swinford getting more or less common?
- Less common. 3,213 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,170 in 2010, down 1.3%.