How common is the surname Swisher?

9,431 people in the United States had the surname Swisher in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 32,737 Americans. It ranked 3,754th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Swisher?

In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Swisher identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Who is the most famous person named Swisher?

Nick Swisher, American baseball player, followed by Kara Swisher.

Where is the surname Swisher most common?

Wikidata records people named Swisher in the United States.

Is the surname Swisher getting more or less common?

More common. 9,360 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 9,431 in 2010, up 0.8%.

The surname Swisher

A German surname, carried by 9,431 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex S260

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Swisher is more common than 97.7% of them.

Origin

German origin

Americanized form of German Schweitzer.

One of 1,101 German surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 9,431 people named Swisher in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 32,737 Americans. That is up 0.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 9,360.

#3,754

rank among US surnames

9,431

people in 2010

3.2

per 100,000 Americans

+0.8%

change since 2000 (was #3,491)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#3,745	Haugen	9,461	32,633
#3,746	McClung	9,456	32,651
#3,747	Poirier	9,453	32,661
#3,748	Perryman	9,443	32,696
#3,749	Cosgrove	9,441	32,703
#3,751	Salerno	9,440	32,706
#3,752	Mundy	9,439	32,710

Who is named Swisher

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

94% of people named Swisher identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.4% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 94%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
Two or more races 1.4%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.4%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Swishers

3 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Nick Swisher
American baseball player, born 1980
Kara Swisher
American journalist, born 1962
Joanna Garcia
American actress and businesswoman (born 1979)

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Swisher

Swiger

Swisher has the Soundex code S260, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S260.

Other German surnames

All 1,101 German surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Swisher come from?: Americanized form of German Schweitzer.
How common is the surname Swisher?: 9,431 people in the United States had the surname Swisher in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 32,737 Americans. It ranked 3,754th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Swisher?: In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Swisher identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Who is the most famous person named Swisher?: Nick Swisher, American baseball player, followed by Kara Swisher.
Where is the surname Swisher most common?: Wikidata records people named Swisher in the United States.
Is the surname Swisher getting more or less common?: More common. 9,360 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 9,431 in 2010, up 0.8%.