Swait Name Origin, Meaning and Family History

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Surname Distribution

Census frequency by county

Name Concentrations Within England and Wales

England

Bedfordshire 0
Buckinghamshire 0
Berkshire 0
Cambridgeshire 0
Channel Islands 0
Cheshire 0
Cornwall 0
Cumberland 0
Derbyshire 0
Devon 0
Dorset 0
Durham 0
Essex 0
Gloucestershire 0
Hampshire 1
Herefordshire 0
Hertfordshire 0
Huntingdonshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 1
Lancashire 0
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 0
London 3
Middlesex 7
Northumberland 0
Norfolk 0
Northamptonshire 0
Nottinghamshire 0
Oxfordshire 0
Rutland 0
Shropshire 0
Suffolk 0
Somerset 0
Surrey 0
Sussex 0
Staffordshire 0
Warwickshire 0
Westmorland 0
Wiltshire 0
Worcestershire 0
Yorkshire 0

Wales

Anglesey 0
Brecknockshire 0
Cardiganshire 0
Carnarvonshire 0
Carmarthenshire 0
Denbighshire 0
Flintshire 0
Glamorgan 0
Merionethshire 0
Montgomeryshire 0
Monmouthshire 0
Pembrokeshire 0
Radnorshire 0

Swait Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Swait family

Profession Census Frequency
Hostler 2
Independent 1
Female Servant 1
Laborer 1
White Smith 1
Conductor 1
Laundress 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Swait

Name Census Frequency
John Swait 23
George Swait 14
Arthur Swait 11
Edward Swait 11
Jane Swait 9
Sarah Swait 9
William Swait 9
Frederick Swait 7
James Swait 7
Edith Swait 6
Elizabeth Swait 6
Maria Swait 6
Walter Swait 6
Lucy Swait 5
Ada Swait 4
Ann Swait 4
Ivy Swait 4
Mary Swait 4
Rose Swait 4
Caroline Swait 3
Clara Swait 3
Deborah Swait 3
Eliza Swait 3
Harriet Swait 3
Henry Swait 3

Swait Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Sweet 60% 19,559
2 Swait 100% 238
3 Swaite 83% 112
4 Sweat 60% 106

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The surname Swait is the 2nd most popular variant of Sweet.

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