Swärd
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries
Swärd is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: soldiers laying down pieces of sward (sense 1) or sod for a Habitat for Humanity project to build homes in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.]] The noun is derived from Middle English sward (“rind; skin; ca.
- SESweden1 in 18K(measured from records)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 130Kfew records
- FIFinland1 in 180K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 201 (measured from records)
- 1 in 18K (inferred from the name graph)
831 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Sward in US United States, AU Australia, GB United Kingdom and 4 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)- Middle Englishsward“rind; skin; calloused skin; leather strap; sod“rind; skin; calloused skin; leather strap; sod, turf”(measured from records)
- Old Englishsweard“rind; skin”(measured from records)
- Proto-Germanic*swarduz“rind; tough skin; turf”(measured from records)
soldiers laying down pieces of sward (sense 1) or sod for a Habitat for Humanity project to build homes in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.]] The noun is derived from Middle English sward (“rind; skin; calloused skin; leather strap; sod, turf”) [and other forms], from Old English sweard, swearð (“rind; skin”), from Proto-Germanic *swarduz (“rind; tough skin; turf”); further etymology unknown. The verb is derived from the noun.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Swärd 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 | — | 831 | 1 in 400K | 982 | Sward | 201 |
| SE Sweden | — | 577 | 1 in 18K | 577 | Swärd | 31 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 134K | — | Sward | 58 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 434K | 7 | Sward | 31 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 313K | — | Sward | 48 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈36 est. | ≈1 in 145K | — | Sward | 1 |
| AG Antigua & Barbuda | — | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | Sward | 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). 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)- Lasse Swärdb. 1956SESwedish journalist
- Karin Swärdb. 1957SESwedish journalist
- Anne Swärdb. 1969SESwedish writer
- Christian Swärdb. 1987SESwedish ice hockey player
- Daniel Swärdb. 1990SESwedish association football player
- Håkan Swärdb. 2000SESwedish musician
- Forndomnot in their usual nameSwedish neo folk musician
- Karl SwärdSEresearcher
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)5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 577 | #1,674 |
Reference works 2
- 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 Swärd mean, and where does it come from?
- soldiers laying down pieces of sward (sense 1) or sod for a Habitat for Humanity project to build homes in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.]] The noun is derived from Middle English sward (“rind; skin; ca… Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Swärd have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 831 people named Swärd, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sward.
- Where is Swärd most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Swärd is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 18 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Swärd?
- In the United States, the national register counted 831 people named Swärd in 2010, about 1 in 400 thousand residents.
- How common is Swärd compared with other names?
- In Bermuda, Swärd is the 367th most common surname of 6,699 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Swärd?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sw%C3%A4rdThe 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, “Swärd” — the 367th most common surname in Bermuda. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.