Swan

22,182 people in the United States were counted with the surname Swan in the 2020 census, making it the 1,578th most common in the country. That is about one person in 13,500.

By the numbers

People: 22,182
Rank: 1,578th
How common: 1 in 13,500
Per 100,000: 7.4

Where the name comes from

Origin a nickname

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 76.5%
Black, not Hispanic 12.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 2.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.2%

Notable people called Swan

Joseph Swan (1828–1914)British physicist and inventor
Serinda Swan (born 1984)Canadian actress
Katie Swan (born 1999)British female tennis player
Peter Swan (1936–2021)English footballer and manager
Isabel Swan (born 1983)Brazilian sailboat racer
Anni Swan (1875–1958)Finnish writer

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

Surnames like Swan

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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.