Swayze — #2021 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Swayze

The Social Security Administration has registered 855 babies named Swayze between 1989 and 2024, spanning 36 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Swayze currently holds the #2021 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2024, when 97 babies received it in a single year. Swayze is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 223 additional births since 1991.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Swayze performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 471 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Swayze shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Mississippi, which accounts for 153 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Utah. In total, SSA state-level files list Swayze in 9 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Swayze 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 855 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.