Swae
#13,646 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Swae has been given to 86 babies in the U.S. since 2018. In 2025 it ranked #13,646 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 11 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 50% boys, 50% girls all-time.
Babies named Swae, 2025
1 in 663,000
Swae over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Swae over time
In 2025, Swae went to 50% girls and 50% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Swae?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 663,000
- 5 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 342,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #13,646
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 459,581 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Swae sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Swae. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Swaes were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Swae was born before 2022 — so the typical Swae is around 3 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 74.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 43
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 74.4% of all recorded uses (32).
Is Swae rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- −5,410
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 45.5%
- Peak was 2022 (11)
- Years since peak
- 3
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 44.7% average annual change
Spellings of Swae
Swae is not the most common spelling — Sean is, with 46.8% against Swae's <0.01%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Swae around the world
Where Swae ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- South Australia2011–2011#840in 2011
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Swae by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Swae
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Swae
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.