Swain

24,047 people in the United States were counted with the surname Swain in the 2020 census, making it the 1,443rd most common in the country. That is about one person in 12,400.

By the numbers

People: 24,047
Rank: 1,443rd
How common: 1 in 12,400
Per 100,000: 8.1

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Swain described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 62.6%
Black, not Hispanic 26.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 2.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Swain

Dominique Swain (born 1980)American actress
Mack Swain (1876–1935)American actor, vaudevillian
Mike Swain (born 1960)American judoka
Kenny Swain (born 1952)English football player and manager

People named Swain with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Swain

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.