Swayze

A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — one syllable, given to 82 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
82
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
#5137
3 babies

Swayze by the numbers

In 2025, 3 babies in England and Wales were named Swayze. In the US, 82 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

For the size of the two countries, it is given several times more often in the US than in England and Wales.

Its best year in America so far is the most recent one on record, which means it was still climbing when the records end.

What we can tell you about Swayze

Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Swayze. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Swayde6 in the US (2017)
  • ShayneGod is gracious; a modern spelling of Shane85 in the US (2017)
  • Slaydevalley; modern respelling of Slade16 in the US (2017)
  • Shaye21 in the US (2017)
  • Sayge13 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Swayze

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