Sweers Surname
Approximately 1,461 people bear this surname
Sweers Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 605 | 1:27,913 | 4,576 |
| United States | 509 | 1:712,100 | 56,164 |
| Germany | 152 | 1:529,641 | 44,407 |
| Canada | 88 | 1:418,700 | 36,754 |
| South Africa | 69 | 1:785,184 | 53,751 |
| Belgium | 20 | 1:574,832 | 53,219 |
| England | 3 | 1:18,572,686 | 338,250 |
| Switzerland | 3 | 1:2,737,638 | 105,941 |
| Australia | 3 | 1:8,998,567 | 200,784 |
| Spain | 2 | 1:23,376,018 | 128,922 |
| Luxembourg | 1 | 1:580,542 | 15,155 |
| Venezuela | 1 | 1:30,204,077 | 85,459 |
| New Zealand | 1 | 1:4,528,323 | 55,372 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| Denmark | 1 | 1:5,644,715 | 93,155 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Austria | 1 | 1:8,515,435 | 118,036 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 33 | 1:1,521,778 | 81,120 |
Sweers Demographics
Average Sweers Salary in
United States
$45,506 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Sweers Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Sweers Come From? nationality or country of origin
Sweers is more frequently found in The Netherlands than any other country/territory. It can occur in the variant forms:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Sweers? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 267,389th most frequently used last name at a global level, held by around 1 in 4,988,053 people. The surname is mostly found in Europe, where 53 percent of Sweers reside; 53 percent reside in Western Europe and 53 percent reside in Germanic Europe.
This surname is most common in The Netherlands, where it is borne by 605 people, or 1 in 27,913. In The Netherlands it is most frequent in: Gelderland, where 31 percent are found, North Holland, where 27 percent are found and South Holland, where 10 percent are found. Barring The Netherlands it is found in 16 countries. It is also found in The United States, where 35 percent are found and Germany, where 10 percent are found.
Sweers Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The frequency of Sweers has changed over time. In The United States the share of the population with the last name increased 1,542 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Sweers Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those holding the Sweers surname are 21.14% more likely to be registered Republicans than The US average, with 67.91% being registered with the political party.
The amount Sweers earn in different countries varies greatly. In South Africa they earn 44.46% less than the national average, earning R 131,988 per year; in United States they earn 5.46% more than the national average, earning $45,506 USD per year and in Canada they earn 3.28% more than the national average, earning $51,314 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
| Surname | Similarity | Worldwide Incidence | Prevalency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shweers | 92 | 1 | / |
| Swers | 91 | 57 | / |
| Swiers | 83 | 927 | / |
| Swears | 83 | 333 | / |
| Swaers | 83 | 2 | / |
| Swetrs | 83 | 1 | / |
| Swerst | 83 | 1 | / |
| Sweirs | 83 | 1 | / |
| Shwers | 83 | 1 | / |
| Schwers | 77 | 350 | / |
| Swiersz | 77 | 76 | / |
| Swearse | 77 | 44 | / |
| Chweers | 77 | 1 | / |
| Shbeers | 77 | 1 | / |
| Shveers | 77 | 1 | / |
| Swersch | 77 | 0 | / |
| Shwiers | 77 | 0 | / |
| Swars | 73 | 188 | / |
| Suers | 73 | 146 | / |
| Zwers | 73 | 44 | / |
| Sbers | 73 | 2 | / |
| Swyrs | 73 | 1 | / |
| Swirs | 73 | 1 | / |
| Schwiers | 71 | 391 | / |
| Swiersch | 71 | 6 | / |
| Schweirs | 71 | 3 | / |
| Schwaers | 71 | 0 | / |
| Schwears | 71 | 0 | / |
| Souers | 67 | 696 | / |
| Zweirs | 67 | 2 | / |
| Suerst | 67 | 2 | / |
| Swarsz | 67 | 2 | / |
| Shuers | 67 | 1 | / |
| Sversh | 67 | 1 | / |
| Suersh | 67 | 1 | / |
| Swirsz | 67 | 1 | / |
| Sverst | 67 | 1 | / |
| Swirse | 67 | 0 | / |
| Shwars | 67 | 0 | / |
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Sweers
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