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2025 data, released 8 May 2026

Swayze

Swayze was the 2049th most popular name for girls in 2025, given to 93 babies. Its best year was 2024, when it ranked 2032nd with 97 babies. Over the last ten years it has moved up 1,424 places. More babies were named Swayze in the 2020s than in any other decade.

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Rank in 2025
#2,049 girls, up 447 places since 2020
Babies in 2025
93girls
Girls and boys
78% girls, 22% boys2021–2025
Peak year
202497 babies
Total since 1880
1,202babies recorded

Swayze popularity since 1880

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GirlsBoys Babies per year, US, from Social Security records. Years with fewer than 5 babies show as zero.
YearRank (girls)Rank (boys)Babies (girls)Babies (boys)
2025#2,049#3,6469331
2020#2,496#5,4247017
2010#7,476#10,613177
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How popular is Swayze, counting every spelling?

Swayze has no other common spelling that sounds the same.

How many kids will share the name Swayze?

93 of the 3,606,400 babies born in the US in 2025 were named Swayze (0.03 per 1,000 births). For a girl named Swayze born in 2025, the chance that another child with the same name is in a class of 20 children the same age is under 1 in 50. If every grade liked the name as much as the 2025 babies do, only about one elementary school in 90 (of 430 pupils) would have a child named Swayze.

Chance of another Swayze in a class of 20under 1 in 50US, born 2025
Most likely inMississippiunder 1 in 50 (2024)

Shares of all registered births (NCHS); classes assumed to be children born the same year. How we estimate this.

How old are people named Swayze?

About 900 people born in the US named Swayze are alive today, with a median age of 7; half are between 3 and 11. That makes Swayze a young name: most people with it are children.

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Estimated people alive in the US with the name, by age, mid-2026. The darker bar holds the median age.

Babies given the name each year (SSA) times the share of that birth year still alive (SSA life tables). Counts people born in the US only. Method.

Swayze by state

How common Swayze was among girls born in each state in 2021–2025. It is notably more common than nationally in Mississippi (27.1×), Utah (5.7×). In 45 states fewer than five girls a year got the name, too few for SSA to publish, so those states show as zero.

Alaska: fewer than 5 a yearAK–Maine: fewer than 5 a yearME–Wisconsin: fewer than 5 a yearWI–Vermont: fewer than 5 a yearVT–New Hampshire: fewer than 5 a yearNH–Washington: fewer than 5 a yearWA–Idaho: fewer than 5 a yearID–Montana: fewer than 5 a yearMT–North Dakota: fewer than 5 a yearND–Minnesota: fewer than 5 a yearMN–Illinois: fewer than 5 a yearIL–Michigan: fewer than 5 a yearMI–New York: fewer than 5 a yearNY–Massachusetts: fewer than 5 a yearMA–Oregon: fewer than 5 a yearOR–Nevada: fewer than 5 a yearNV–Wyoming: fewer than 5 a yearWY–South Dakota: fewer than 5 a yearSD–Iowa: fewer than 5 a yearIA–Indiana: fewer than 5 a yearIN–Ohio: fewer than 5 a yearOH–Pennsylvania: fewer than 5 a yearPA–New Jersey: fewer than 5 a yearNJ–Connecticut: fewer than 5 a yearCT–Rhode Island: fewer than 5 a yearRI–California: 0.01 per 1,000 babiesCA0.01Utah: 0.28 per 1,000 babiesUT0.28Colorado: fewer than 5 a yearCO–Nebraska: fewer than 5 a yearNE–Missouri: fewer than 5 a yearMO–Kentucky: fewer than 5 a yearKY–West Virginia: fewer than 5 a yearWV–Virginia: fewer than 5 a yearVA–Maryland: fewer than 5 a yearMD–Delaware: fewer than 5 a yearDE–Arizona: fewer than 5 a yearAZ–New Mexico: fewer than 5 a yearNM–Kansas: fewer than 5 a yearKS–Arkansas: fewer than 5 a yearAR–Tennessee: 0.09 per 1,000 babiesTN0.09North Carolina: fewer than 5 a yearNC–South Carolina: fewer than 5 a yearSC–District of Columbia: fewer than 5 a yearDC–Oklahoma: 0.23 per 1,000 babiesOK0.23Louisiana: fewer than 5 a yearLA–Mississippi: 1.3 per 1,000 babiesMS1.3Alabama: fewer than 5 a yearAL–Georgia: fewer than 5 a yearGA–Hawaii: fewer than 5 a yearHI–Texas: 0.06 per 1,000 babiesTX0.06Florida: fewer than 5 a yearFL–
Babies per 1,000 of the same sex, Swayze, girls, 2021–2025. Darker means more common.

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Questions about the name Swayze

How popular is the name Swayze?

Swayze was the 2049th most popular name for girls in 2025, given to 93 babies. Its best year was 2024, when it ranked 2032nd with 97 babies. Over the last ten years it has moved up 1,424 places. More babies were named Swayze in the 2020s than in any other decade.

Is Swayze a boy or girl name?

In 2021–2025, 78% girls, 22% boys given the name Swayze in the US.

Where is Swayze most popular?

In 2021–2025, Swayze was most common in Mississippi (1.30 per 1,000 girls), followed by Utah and Oklahoma.