girls:
78 births since 1969
#5638 (1st percentile)
boys:
124 births since 1889
#4462 (3rd percentile)
overall:
202 births since 1889
#7537 (3rd percentile)
The name Swan is the #7,537 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 202 recorded births since 1889. This represents the 2.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 2.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,462 (2.6% percentile) for all time with 124 births since 1889. For girls, it ranks #5,638 (1.3% percentile) for all time with 78 births since 1969.
Swan first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1889 (1889 for boys and 1969 for girls). Birth data for Swan is available in 31 out of the 130 years between 1889 and 2018 (19 years for boys and 13 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Swan has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for boys (61.4% of all recorded births). In 2018, 0.0% of babies named Swan were boys.
For boys, Swan reached its peak popularity in 1925, achieving the 1.1% percentile (ranked #540) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 1889, with 42 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2014.
For girls, Swan reached its peak popularity in 1983, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #772) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1983, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2018.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Swan".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Swan. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 68.8% confident that Swan is pronounced as swahn, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is swawn, at 31.3% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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