Swãger
surname · Latin script
Swãger is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Recorded in neither Old English nor Middle English.
- USUnited States1 in 395K(measured from records)
- AOAngola≈1 in 46K
- PTPortugal≈1 in 60K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 189 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 46K (inferred from the name graph)
≈10,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Angola, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Swager in US United States, DO Dominican Republic, NL Netherlands and 3 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- Dutchor(measured from records)
- Proto-Germanic*swēgraz“husband's brother”(measured from records)
- Proto-Indo-European*swéḱuros“husband's father”(measured from records)
Recorded in neither Old English nor Middle English. Perhaps a borrowing from Dutch or Low German, but this derivation is rather unlikely due to the presence of the words like sweyr (“mother-in-law”) and swier (“father-in-law”) in some East Midlands dialects, which are derived from attested Old English and Middle English words sweger and sweor, respectively. Ultimately derived from Proto-Germanic *swēgraz (“husband's brother”), from Proto-Indo-European *swéḱuros (“husband's father”).
Sources 1
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Swãger 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 140K | — | Swager | 1 |
| US United States | 842 | 1 in 395K | 926 | Swager | 189 |
| AO Angola | ≈710 est. | ≈1 in 46K | — | Swager | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | 191 | 1 in 90K | 191 | Swager | 23 |
| PT Portugal | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 60K | — | Swager | 5 |
| DO Dominican Republic | ≈91 est. | ≈1 in 116K | — | Swager | 5 |
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; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Swãger mean, and where does it come from?
- Recorded in neither Old English nor Middle English. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Swãger have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 10.0 thousand people named Swãger in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled swager.
- How common is the name Swãger?
- In the United States, the national register counted 842 people named Swãger in 2010, about 1 in 395 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Swãger?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sw%C3%A3gerThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Swãger”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.