Schwarm
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Schwarm is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: swarm of insects; flock of birds; school of fish.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 600K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 866K
- DKDenmark1 in 2M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 78 (measured from records)
- 1 in 600K (inferred from the name graph)
384 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
swarm of insects; flock of birds; school of fish
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Schwarm counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 384 | 1 in 866K | 456 | Schwarm | 68 |
| CH Switzerland | 14 | 1 in 600K | 14 | — | 1 |
| DK Denmark | 3 | 1 in 2M | 3 | — | — |
| DE Germany | — | — | — | Schwarm | 78 |
| CA Canada | — | — | — | Schwarm | 4 |
| NO Norway | — | — | — | Schwarm | 3 |
384 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Schwarm is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Berufsname; zu mhd. swarm '(Bienen-)Schwarm'. Bearer count: 308.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Balthasar Schwarmb. 1946DEGerman luger
- Angela SchwarmCHresearcher
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 9 sources across 4 countries.
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Schwarm mean, and where does it come from?
- swarm of insects; flock of birds; school of fish Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Schwarm?
- In the etymology graph, Swarm is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Schwarm have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 384 people named Schwarm, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled schwarm.
- Where is Schwarm most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Schwarm is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 600 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Schwarm?
- In the United States, the national register counted 384 people named Schwarm in 2010, about 1 in 866 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/schwarmThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Schwarm”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.