Swetter Surname

2,136,387th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 78 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
United States
Highest density in:
Netherlands

Swetter Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Swetter Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States571:6,358,929302,882
Netherlands201:844,35960,801
Slovakia11:5,336,450140,422
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States11:50,218,684817,899

Swetter Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Swetter Come From? nationality or country of origin

The surname Swetter is held by more people in The United States than any other country or territory. It may also appear as:. Click here for further possible spellings of this last name.

How Common Is The Last Name Swetter? popularity and diffusion

Swetter is the 2,136,387th most common surname world-wide, borne by around 1 in 93,430,076 people. The last name Swetter is mostly found in The Americas, where 73 percent of Swetter are found; 73 percent are found in North America and 73 percent are found in Anglo-North America.

The last name Swetter is most prevalent in The United States, where it is borne by 57 people, or 1 in 6,358,929. In The United States it is most frequent in: Pennsylvania, where 68 percent reside, Florida, where 12 percent reside and Ohio, where 9 percent reside. Not including The United States this last name is found in 2 countries. It also occurs in The Netherlands, where 26 percent reside and Slovakia, where 1 percent reside.

Swetter Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The prevalency of Swetter has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people bearing the Swetter surname expanded 5,700 percent between 1880 and 2014.

Swetter Last Name Statistics demography

In The United States those holding the Swetter last name are 21.77% more likely to be registered Democrats than the national average, with 75% registered to vote for the political party.

Swetter earn somewhat less than the average income. In United States they earn 8.46% less than the national average, earning $39,500 USD per year.

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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
  • Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
  • 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 Swetter
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