Updated June 9, 2019

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Boy name origins & meanings

  • Middle English : Knight's attendant

Boy name variations

Swaine

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Swayne

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Family name origins & meanings

  • Northern English : occupational name for a servant or attendant, from the Middle English word swein ‘servant’ or Old Norse sveinn ‘boy’, ‘servant’. In Old Norse this word is also found as a personal name in the form Sveinn; so in some cases the origin may be patronymic.
  • Scottish and Irish : reduced form of McSwain.