Swords Family History
Swords Name Meaning
(Counties Leix and Offaly) variant of Sword 2,
with superfluous English patronymic -s.habitational name
from a place of this name in County Dublin.Anglicized form of
Gaelic Ó Claimhín, a translation as though from
claidheamh ‘sword’ (see Clavin).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Swords Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Swords families
 26 - 49  9 - 25 |
 1 - 8  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Swords families
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11 - 19 4 - 10 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Swords families
|
3 - 2 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Swords Family Origin
Swords Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Swords
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Swords Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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