Swow Surname

5,213,395th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 14 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
United States
Highest density in:
United States

Swow Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Swow Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States101:36,245,893832,629
India31:255,688,4611,306,352
Pakistan11:178,643,885213,220

Swow Last Name Facts

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

Swow is borne by more people in The United States than any other country/territory. It can appear in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Swow? popularity and diffusion

The last name is the 5,213,395th most frequently used last name on a global scale It is held by around 1 in 520,538,994 people. The last name is mostly found in The Americas, where 71 percent of Swow are found; 71 percent are found in North America and 71 percent are found in Anglo-North America.

Swow is most commonly held in The United States, where it is borne by 10 people, or 1 in 36,245,893. In The United States it is most prevalent in: Arkansas, where 40 percent live, Illinois, where 30 percent live and New York, where 10 percent live. Not including The United States this last name occurs in 2 countries. It is also common in India, where 21 percent live and Pakistan, where 7 percent live.

Swow Last Name Statistics demography

Swow earn around the same as the average income. In United States they earn 4.1% more than the national average, earning $44,917 USD per year.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Swaw75245/
Swob7598/
Swov752/
Suow751/
Szwob6736/
Svowa6728/
Swhaw673/
Swoft673/
Swoff672/
Swopf671/
Swofe670/

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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 Swow
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