The Swider surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 1,452 people carried this name — #18,841 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 204,100 people counted. That is up 4% from 1,399 in 2000.
Where the name comes from
The origin of the Swider surname
From Polish Świder.
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Swider» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In Poland’s population register
5,975 people named Swider have a registered home in Poland.
Of the 6,486 in Poland’s national register, these are the ones with a permanent address on file. They live in all 16 of Poland’s voivodeships, most of all in Subcarpathian.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
PESEL register, Ministry of Digital Affairs of Poland (dane.gov.pl) — CC0 · living people by voivodeship of permanent residence, 20 January 2026.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 54 people named Swider.
13 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 15 départements, most often Aisne.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
Who carried it
People named Swider,
with a public archive behind them.
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Cole Swider 1999– · basketball player
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Niklas Swider 2007– · association football player
Wikidata (CC0).
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Swider.
- Sutter 9,760 · U.S. census
- Sutterlin 287 · U.S. census
- Sutton 90,964 · U.S. census
- Suzan 102 · U.S. census
- Svoboda 5,686 · U.S. census
- Swiatek 1,381 · U.S. census
- Swiderski 1,864 · U.S. census
- Switala 474 · U.S. census
- Sy 4,457 · U.S. census
- Sydor 322 · U.S. census
- Sylla 1,530 · U.S. census
- Sylva 1,834 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
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