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The seward Surname

seward Name Meaning and History

  1. English: from a Middle English personal name representing two originally distinct personal names, Siward and Seward, Old English Sigeweard and S?weard, composed of the elements sige ‘victory’ and s? ‘sea’ + weard ‘guard’, ‘protect’. They became confused in the late Old English period.
  2. English: occupational name for a swineherd, from Old English su ‘pig’ + hierde ‘herdsman’.
  3. Irish: when not of English origin (see 1 above) a reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Suaird, Ó Suairt, usually Anglicized as Sword.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of seward Families in the US in 1920
Number of seward families
 93-183
 32-92		 1-31
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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