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    The surname Sword

    An occupational surname, carried by 3,225 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex S630

    Sword: #9,997 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Sword #9,997, 3,225 people Sword: #9,997 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Sword #9,997, 3,225 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Sword is more common than 93.8% of them.

    Origin

    Various origins: * Metonymic occupational surname for a sword maker or armorer. * Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Suaird (“descendant of Suard”), a Gaelicized form of Old Norse Sigvarðr.

    Sword is an occupational surname: named after the work an ancestor did.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 3,225 people named Sword in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 95,735 Americans. That is up 1.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,173.

    #9,997
    rank among US surnames
    3,225
    people in 2010
    1.1
    per 100,000 Americans
    +1.6%
    change since 2000 (was #9,408)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #9,989Sonnenberg3,22995,616
    #9,991Leek3,22895,646
    #9,994Shoaf3,22795,676
    #9,997Sword3,22595,735
    #9,998Jaques3,22495,765
    #10,001Dubon3,22395,794
    #10,006Cortinas3,22295,824

    Who is named Sword

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

    93% of people named Sword identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.6% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 93%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 2.6%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
    • Two or more races 1.4%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.2%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Variant spellings

    • Soard

    Surnames that sound like Sword

    Sword has the Soundex code S630, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S630.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Sword come from?
    Various origins: * Metonymic occupational surname for a sword maker or armorer. * Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Suaird (“descendant of Suard”), a Gaelicized form of Old Norse Sigvarðr.
    How common is the surname Sword?
    3,225 people in the United States had the surname Sword in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 95,735 Americans. It ranked 9,997th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Sword?
    In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Sword identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.6% as Black (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Sword?
    Sword is an occupational surname, named after the work an ancestor did.
    Is the surname Sword getting more or less common?
    More common. 3,173 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,225 in 2010, up 1.6%.
    What are other spellings of Sword?
    Soard.