Swayze
Swayze is given to both girls and boys: 93 girls and 31 boys were given it in 2025 (#2,049 among girls’ names and #3,645 among boys’, #3,070 among all names counting both); 1,202 Americans have been recorded with it since 1989 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,190 Americans named Swayze and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 3 and 11.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Swayze by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Swayze?
#2,049 among girls’ names, 2025
Swayze rose from #3,473 in 2015 to #2,049 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 25.8 to 57.9 per million.
124 babies in 2025, the peak
Swayze peaked in 2025, when 124 babies were given it (93 girls, #2,049 among girls’ names). In 2024 it went to 97 girls.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 93 | #2,049 | 31 | #3,645 |
| 2024 | 97 | #2,032 | 16 | #5,859 |
| 2023 | 83 | #2,257 | 21 | #4,863 |
| 2022 | 59 | #2,889 | 23 | #4,548 |
| 2021 | 59 | #2,887 | 22 | #4,602 |
| 2020 | 70 | #2,496 | 17 | #5,420 |
| 2019 | 53 | #3,079 | 12 | #7,114 |
| 2018 | 51 | #3,196 | 10 | #8,078 |
| 2017 | 67 | #2,631 | 16 | #5,745 |
| 2016 | 48 | #3,372 | 13 | #6,673 |
Every recorded year (21)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 46 | #3,473 | 16 | #5,709 |
| 2014 | 51 | #3,221 | 9 | #8,699 |
| 2013 | 59 | #2,899 | 9 | #8,672 |
| 2012 | 53 | #3,162 | 14 | #6,256 |
| 2011 | 26 | #5,342 | 6 | #12,074 |
| 2010 | 17 | #7,473 | 7 | #10,606 |
| 2009 | under 5 | 5 | #14,223 | |
| 2005 | 5 | #18,844 | under 5 | |
| 2004 | 6 | #15,856 | under 5 | |
| 1991 | under 5 | 7 | #7,169 | |
| 1989 | 5 | #14,288 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Swayze a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,202 Americans recorded as Swayze, 79% are girls and 21% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Swayze: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Swayze, and how old are they?
1,190 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,202 Americans ever recorded as Swayze. The median Swayze alive today is 7 years old; half are between 3 and 11.
The 2020 Census counted 643 people named Swayze (500 women and girls, 143 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 628 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 12 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 138 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,050 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Swayze born?
The states with the most babies named Swayze are Mississippi, Texas and Oklahoma, with 69% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Mississippi and Oklahoma are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | 12 | #238 | 14.2× |
| Texas | 11 | #2,025 | 0.7× |
| Oklahoma | 11 | #689 | 1.4× |
| Utah | 9 | #484 | 1.9× |
| Tennessee | 6 | #1,116 | 0.5× |
Where Swayze is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Swayze is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1989 it was given 14.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Swayze with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 1,860 babies since 1880, Swayze is the most given (65% of them). In 2025 it was given to 124 of their 191 babies (65%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Swayze
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Swayze and names like it
- Compare Swayze and SwayzieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sSwayze peaked in 2025.
- Mississippi’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Swayze since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Swayze.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Swayze alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.