Swift

Swift is the 1,468th most common surname in the United States, shared by 23,678 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 12,600.

By the numbers

People: 23,678
Rank: 1,468th
How common: 1 in 12,600
Per 100,000: 7.9

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 Swift described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 75.4%
Black, not Hispanic 15.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%

Notable people called Swift

Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)Anglo-Irish satirist and essayist
Lewis A. Swift (1820–1913)American astronomer
Graham Swift (born 1949)English writer
Clive Swift (1936–2019)British actor
Ben Swift (born 1987)British racing cyclist
Jeremy Swift (born 1960)British actor
Alfred Swift (1931–2009)South African cyclist
David Swift (1919–2001)American director and producer

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

Surnames like Swift

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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.