Sway — unisex name

What the Data Says About Sway

The Social Security Administration has registered 226 babies named Sway between 2001 and 2023, spanning 23 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Sway currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 2005, when 15 babies received it in a single year. Sway is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 102 additional births since 2003.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Sway performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 104 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Sway shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.

No etymological entry is currently available for Sway 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 226 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.