Swisher

8,921 people in the United States were counted with the surname Swisher in the 2020 census, making it the 3,872nd most common in the country. That is about one person in 33,500.

By the numbers

People: 8,921
Rank: 3,872nd
How common: 1 in 33,500
Per 100,000: 3.0

Where the name comes from

Origin German

Americanized form of German Schweitzer.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 90.9%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.1%
Black, not Hispanic 1.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Swisher

Nick Swisher (born 1980)American baseball player
Kara Swisher (born 1962)American journalist

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

Surnames like Swisher

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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.