Swinney

Swinney is the 7,207th most common surname in the United States, shared by 4,467 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 66,900.

By the numbers

People: 4,467
Rank: 7,207th
How common: 1 in 66,900
Per 100,000: 1.5

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

Variant of Sweeney.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 70.5%
Black, not Hispanic 21.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.6%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Swinney

John Swinney (born 1964)Scottish politician

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

Surnames like Swinney

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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.