Schwind — Family Name, Records and Arms

Sharing the Schwind name is not the same as sharing a crest; arms were granted to individual families.

Surname statistics

Begin with the numbers and the Schwind surname comes into focus. Wikidata records Schwind as a German family name.

We do not guess at meanings: where the dictionaries are silent on Schwind, the family's own records come first. In the 2010 US Census, 1,291 Americans gave Schwind as their last name (rank 20,541). That puts it inside the top 25,000 US surnames. French civil records give 102 births under the name Schwind from 1891 to 2000, peaking in 1911–1920.

Research your Schwind family history with a full surname report and painted coat of arms.