Swire
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a northern form of SQUIRE; first attested Geoflfrey le Swyer 1275 RH (Nottinghamshire)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/swaɪə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Swire is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- GBUnited Kingdom
- USUnited States
- JMJamaica
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a northern form of SQUIRE; first attested Geoflfrey le Swyer 1275 RH (Nottinghamshire)
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
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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)
Swire is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, The neck.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, a northern English variant of Squire.
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
In sco, neck
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Samuel Swireb. 1839English cricketer (1839-1905)
- John Kidston Swireb. 1893GBBritish businessman and chairman of Swire Group (1893-1983)
- John Anthony Swireb. 1927GBBritish businessman (1927-2016)
- Adrian Swireb. 1932GBBritish corporate director (1932-2018)
- Vivienne Westwoodb. 1941GBnot in their usual nameBritish fashion designer (1941–2022)
- Peter Swireb. 1958USAmerican academic
- Hugo Swire, Baron Swireb. 1959GBBritish politician (born 1959)
- Barnaby Swireb. 1964GBBritish businessman
- Merlin Bingham Swireb. 1973GBBritish businessman
- Rob Swireb. 1982AUAustralian singer, DJ and record producer
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 12 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 497 | #46,253 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 469 | #43,377 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 464 | #45,959 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 404 | #13,314 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #400,885 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 2 | #16,413 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Swire mean, and where does it come from?
- a northern form of SQUIRE; first attested Geoflfrey le Swyer 1275 RH (Nottinghamshire) Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Swire?
- A machine transcription gives /swaɪə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Swire have the most bearers?
- Swire is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
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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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Swire”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.