Swaerd
surname · Latin script
Swaerd is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 400Kas Sward(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 18Kas Swärd
- BMBermuda≈1 in 35Kas Sward
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Swaerd itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 201 (measured from records)
- 1 in 18K (inferred from the name graph)
831 named Sward, 2010
Highest-authority source
Sweden, as Swärd
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Sward in US United States, AU Australia, GB United Kingdom and 3 more and Swärd in SE Sweden.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Swaerd 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 | — | 831as Sward | 1 in 400K | 982 | Sward | 201 |
| SE Sweden | — | 577as Swärd | 1 in 18K | 577 | Swärd | 31 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 136K | — | Sward | 58 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 463K | 7 | Sward | 31 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 347K | — | Sward | 48 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈31 est. | ≈1 in 158K | — | Sward | 1 |
| FI Finland | — | 31as Swärd | 1 in 180K | 31 | — | 1 |
| BM Bermuda | #367 | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | Sward | 2 |
831 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 2000; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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
- In which country does Swaerd have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 831 people named Sward, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Swaerd most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Swaerd itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Sweden's: the national register counts about 1 in 18 thousand people named Swärd.
- How common is the name Swaerd?
- In the United States, the national register counted 831 people named Sward in 2010, about 1 in 400 thousand residents.
- How common is Swaerd compared with other names?
- In Bermuda, Swaerd is the 367th most common surname of 6,699 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Swaerd?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/swaerdThe 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, “Swaerd” — the 367th most common surname in Bermuda. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.