The swain Surname

swain Name Meaning and History

Northern English: occupational name for a servant or attendant, from the Middle English word swein ‘servant’ or Old Norse sveinn ‘boy’, ‘servant’. In Old Norse this word is also found as a personal name in the form Sveinn; so in some cases the origin may be patronymic.
Scottish and Irish: reduced form of McSwain.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4

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swain Family Facts

Distribution of swain Families in the US in 1920

Number of swain families

118-234

40-117

1-39

Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 543 - Messages: 1352

Thread	Author	Replies
Swains from Bedford Co., VA	Nancy Ayers	19
Swains and other families in North Easton , NY, and Newburg	sue maxwell	5
Captain Shubael Swain of Mass and NYC	SueMaxwell17	0
Robert Henry Swain	SueMaxwell17	0
Book: Swains of Nantucket: Tales and Trails by Robert H. Swain	Joanna Swain Wright	10
Swain's of Arkansas	JimR. Swain	7
swain family	david wilson	7
SWAIN D Jane and R Glynn	t42Moore	0
SWAIN Kevin J 1962-1979	t42Moore	0
SWAIN Doris Aline 1921-2001	t42Moore	0

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