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The swift Surname

swift Name Meaning and History

  1. English: nickname for a rapid runner, from Middle English swift ‘fleet’.
  2. Irish: Anglicization (part translation) of Gaelic Ó Fuada (see Foody).
  3. Americanized form of some like-sounding Jewish name.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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swift Family Facts

Distribution of swift Families in the US in 1920
Number of swift families
 222-441
 75-221		 1-74
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Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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