Swayze
#2,049 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Swayze has been given to 1,202 babies in the U.S. since 1989. In 2025 it ranked #2,049 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 97 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 79% girls, 21% boys all-time.
Babies named Swayze, 2025
1 in 35,600
Swayze 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Swayze over time
In 2025, Swayze went to 75% girls and 25% 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 Swayze?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 35,600
- 93 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 17,300
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #2,049
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 24,710 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Swayze 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 24,710 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Swayze. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Swayzes were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Swayze was born before 2019 — so the typical Swayze is around 6 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 49.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 99.5%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 948
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 49.7% of all recorded uses (471).
Is Swayze 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
- −17
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +447
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +1,424
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 2.02×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 95.9%
- Peak was 2024 (97)
- Years since peak
- 1
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 24.3% average annual change
Spellings of Swayze
Swayze is not the most common spelling — Shayne is, with 33.0% against Swayze's 10.6%.
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.
Where Swayze is used — girls
Across 1910–2025, Swayze was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 12,500 girls, against 1 in 167,632 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Mississippi1 in 12,500
- 2Utah1 in 33,333
- 3Oklahoma1 in 100,000
- 4Texas1 in 100,000
- 5California1 in —
- 6Georgia1 in —
- 7Ohio1 in —
- 8Pennsylvania1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Swayze has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Where Swayze is used — boys
Across 1910–2025, Swayze was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 891,055 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Mississippi1 in —
- 2Oklahoma1 in —
- 3Texas1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Swayze has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Swayze around the world
Where Swayze 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.
- Canada2022–2022#3,322in 2022
Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Swayze by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Swayze
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Swayze
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.