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The surname Swint

A surname, carried by 3,159 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex S530

Swint: #10,199 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Swint #10,199, 3,159 people Swint: #10,199 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Swint #10,199, 3,159 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Swint is more common than 93.7% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 3,159 people named Swint in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 97,735 Americans. That is up 6.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,966.

#10,199
rank among US surnames
3,159
people in 2010
1.1
per 100,000 Americans
+6.5%
change since 2000 (was #10,025)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#10,191O'Loughlin3,16297,642
#10,193Pizzo3,16197,673
#10,197Garr3,16097,704
#10,199Swint3,15997,735
#10,200Hunsinger3,15897,766
#10,204Thakkar3,15797,797

Who is named Swint

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

51% of people named Swint identified as white (not Hispanic), 44% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

  • White (not Hispanic) 51%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 44%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
  • Two or more races 1.8%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.2%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Swint

Swint has the Soundex code S530, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S530.

Questions

How common is the surname Swint?
3,159 people in the United States had the surname Swint in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 97,735 Americans. It ranked 10,199th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Swint?
In the 2010 Census, 51% of people named Swint identified as white (not Hispanic), and 44% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Swint getting more or less common?
More common. 2,966 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,159 in 2010, up 6.5%.