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Around the world, סמית (Smith , Smit , Canaan ) is a common dominantly boy's, but uncommonly female first name. The given name סמית is habitual in Sub-Saharan Africa, particularly the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where it is quite a common predominantly male, but very infrequently female name, Reunion, where it is quite a common feminine name, and Cameroon, where it is quite a rare primarily masculine, but very infrequently girly name. Not in comparison with a country's population, it is the most numerous in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nigeria, and the United States. Much more frequently, סמית is the last name as well as the forename.
סמית is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Canaan , character in Hūd; Canaan , the son of Ham in the Hebrew Bible, Genesis 10 and Smith , the musical character in the musical The Crinoline Girl by Percy Wenrich.