Swan — boys' name

What the Data Says About Swan

The Social Security Administration has registered 124 babies named Swan between 1889 and 2014, spanning 126 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Swan currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2014. The name reached its historical peak in 1925, when 11 babies received it in a single year. Swan is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 78 additional births since 1969.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Swan performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 59 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Swan shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Tennessee, which accounts for 6 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Swan in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Swan in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 124 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.