Swanson

Swanson is the 439th most common surname in the United States, shared by 74,015 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 4,038.

By the numbers

People: 74,015
Rank: 439th
How common: 1 in 4,038
Per 100,000: 24.8

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 87.2%
Black, not Hispanic 4.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Swanson

Gloria Swanson (1899–1983)American actress
Kristy Swanson (born 1969)American actress
Steven Swanson (born 1960)American engineer and NASA astronaut
Mallory Swanson (born 1998)American soccer player
Duane Swanson (1913–2000)basketball player
Claude A. Swanson (1862–1939)American lawyer and politician
Cub Swanson (born 1983)American mixed martial artist

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

Surnames like Swanson

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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.