Śmith
surname · Latin script
Śmith is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country, where it is the most common surname. Recorded meaning: From Middle English smyth, smith, from Old English smiþ, from Proto-Germanic *smiþaz, from Proto-Indo-European *smēy-, *smī- (“to cut, hew”).
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 108(inferred from the name graph)
- IEIreland≈1 in 125
- BGBulgaria≈1 in 130
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- #20 (measured from records)
- 7 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 697 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 108 (inferred from the name graph)
2,442,977 people, 2010
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United Kingdom, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Smith in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 6 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- Middle Englishsmyth(measured from records)
- Old Englishsmiþ(measured from records)
- Proto-Germanic*smiþaz(measured from records)
- Proto-Indo-European*smēy-“to cut“to cut, hew”(measured from records)
From Middle English smyth, smith, from Old English smiþ, from Proto-Germanic *smiþaz, from Proto-Indo-European *smēy-, *smī- (“to cut, hew”). Cognate with Dutch smid, German Schmied, German Low German Smitt, Danish smed, Faroese smiður, Icelandic smiður, Norwegian Bokmål smed, Norwegian Nynorsk smed, Swedish smed, Yiddish שמיד (shmid).
Sources 6
- Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
- Scottish Surnames
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Śmith counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #1 | 2,442,977 | 1 in 136 | 2.4M | Smith | 697 |
| GB United Kingdom | #1 | ≈610,000 est. | ≈1 in 108 | 11K | Smith | 463 |
| CA Canada | #1 | ≈250,000 est. | ≈1 in 149 | 3 | Smith | 393 |
| EG Egypt | #100 | ≈240,000 est. | ≈1 in 434 | — | Smith | 69 |
| IT Italy | #1 | ≈210,000 est. | ≈1 in 291 | 1 | Smith | 141 |
| AU Australia | #1 | ≈190,000 est. | ≈1 in 133 | 1 | Smith | 381 |
| BG Bulgaria | #62 | ≈54,000 est. | ≈1 in 130 | — | Smith | 66 |
| IE Ireland | #1 | ≈41,000 est. | ≈1 in 125 | — | Smith | 180 |
| NZ New Zealand | #1 | ≈38,000 est. | ≈1 in 131 | — | Smith | 224 |
2,442,977 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Śmith mean, and where does it come from?
- From Middle English smyth, smith, from Old English smiþ, from Proto-Germanic *smiþaz, from Proto-Indo-European *smēy-, *smī- (“to cut, hew”). Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular… and Scottish Surnames and 4 other sources.
- In which country does Śmith have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.4 million people named Śmith, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled smith.
- How common is the name Śmith?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,442,977 people named Śmith in 2010, about 1 in 136 residents.
- How common is Śmith compared with other names?
- In the United States, Śmith is the most common surname of 6,282,806 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C5%9BmithThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Śmith” — the most common surname in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.