- 831
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Swales
Meaning & Origins
English (Yorkshire): in all probability from the Swale river in Yorkshire. (Reaney and Wilson list a 17thcentury example, Swayles, with this origin.) Alternatively, it may be a metronymic from the Old Norse female personal name Svala.
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- Hundreds
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 831
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Oregon
- has the most people named Swales per capita
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