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swingle Name Meaning and History

  1. English: metonymic occupational name for a worker in the linen or hemp industry, from Middle English swingle ‘swingle’, a wooden implement used for beating flax or hemp (Middle Dutch swinghel, from the verb ‘to swing’).
  2. Possibly an Americanized spelling of German Zwingel, a topographic name from Middle High German zwingel ‘citadel’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of swingle Families in the US in 1920
Number of swingle families
 80-157
 27-79
 1-26
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