Swallow

2,710 people in the United States were counted with the surname Swallow in the 2020 census, making it the 11,168th most common in the country. That is about one person in 110,000.

By the numbers

People: 2,710
Rank: 11,168th
How common: 1 in 110,000
Per 100,000: 0.91

Where the name comes from

As an English surname, from the noun swallow (sense 2).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 84.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 6.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.9%
Hispanic or Latino 3.8%
Black, not Hispanic 0.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Swallow

Ellen Swallow Richards (1842–1911)American chemist
Emily Swallow (born 1979)American actress
Steve Swallow (born 1940)American jazz bassist and composer

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

Surnames like Swallow

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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.