Swart

4,065 people in the United States were counted with the surname Swart in the 2020 census, making it the 7,822nd most common in the country. That is about one person in 73,500.

By the numbers

People: 4,065
Rank: 7,822nd
How common: 1 in 73,500
Per 100,000: 1.4

Where the name comes from

English and Dutch surname, from swart (“dark-haired, dark-skinned, swarthy”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 89.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.2%
Hispanic or Latino 3.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.1%
Black, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Swart

Charles Robberts Swart (1894–1982)South African politician
Sjaak Swart (born 1938)Dutch footballer
Reine Swart (born 1950)Women Actor Citizen of South Africa

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

Surnames like Swart

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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.