Swindler
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Swindler is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: A person who swindles, cheats or defrauds.
- USUnited States1 in 197K(measured from records)
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
- 13 (measured from records)
- 1 in 197K (inferred from the name graph)
1,690 people, 2010
Reference-verified
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A person who swindles, cheats or defrauds.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Swindler 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 | 1,690 | 1 in 197K | 1.7K | Swindler | 13 |
| FR France | — | — | — | Swindler | 10 |
1,690 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. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Mary Hamilton Swindlerb. 1884USAmerican archaeologist and classical art scholar
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 5 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.7K | #16,868 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.5K | #17,334 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.5K | #18,750 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Swindler mean, and where does it come from?
- A person who swindles, cheats or defrauds. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Swindler have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.7 thousand people named Swindler, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled swindler.
- Where is Swindler most common?
- Swindler is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 197 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Swindler?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,690 people named Swindler in 2010, about 1 in 197 thousand residents.
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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, “Swindler”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.