Swan Family History
Swan Name Meaning
Scottish and English: from Middle English swan ‘swan’,
hence a nickname for a person noted for purity or excellence (which
were taken to be attributes of the swan), or resembling a swan in some
other way. This was also an Old Norse and Old English personal name,
from which the surname may be derived. In some cases it may be a
habitational name for someone who lived at a house with the sign of a
swan.variant of English Swain.Americanized
form of German Schwan.Americanized form of Norwegian
Sveen or Swedish Swahn.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Swan
Name Distribution of Swan Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Swan families
 364 - 726  122 - 363 |
 1 - 121  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Swan families
|
416 - 829 139 - 415 |
1 - 138 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Swan census records
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Swan Family Origin
Swan Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Swan Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Swan census records
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Military Service by Swan
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