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Sword Name Meaning
Scottish and English: metonymic occupational name for a
swordsman or armorer, from Middle English swerd, sword
‘sword’.Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó
Suaird, Ó Suairt ‘descendant of Suart’, a
personal name derived from Old Norse Sigvarðr ‘victory
keeper’, a cognate of Old English Sigeweard. Compare
Seward 1.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Sword Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Sword families
 25 - 47  9 - 24 |
 1 - 8  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Sword families
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31 - 59 11 - 30 |
1 - 10 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Sword families
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49 - 95 17 - 48 |
1 - 16 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Sword Immigration Information
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Sword Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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