Updated June 9, 2019

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Family name origins & meanings

  • 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.