Smile
org · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Smile is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Algeria than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Bucks and Berks. see Smewing .
- USUnited States1 in 2.1M(measured from records)
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 17K
- HKHong Kong≈1 in 30K
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.
- Algeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 140 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 17K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,500 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Algeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Smîlë in DZ Algeria.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Main GB Location (1881): Bucks and Berks. see Smewing . • Current frequencies: GB 43, Ireland 0 • GB frequency 1881: 22 • Main GB location 1881: Middx and Essex; Durham 1 English: nickname from Middle English smile ‘smile’, for a cheerful person, or perhaps ironically for a grumpy person. Compare Adam Smyler, 1379 in Poll Tax (Ecclesfield, WR Yorks). Some of the early bearers given here may alternatively belong with (2).
Sources 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Smile 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DZ Algeria | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Smîlë | 5 |
| IN India | ≈940 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | 1 | Smile | 25 |
| HK Hong Kong | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Smile | 9 |
| US United States | 162 | 1 in 2.1M | 180 | Smile | 140 |
| DE Germany | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 604K | — | Smile | 32 |
| GH Ghana | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 222K | — | Smile | 7 |
| SG Singapore | ≈89 est. | ≈1 in 70K | — | Smile | 10 |
| NL Netherlands | ≈68 est. | ≈1 in 252K | — | Smile | 7 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Apollo Smileb. 1967USsinger-songwriter and voice actress
- Eve Smileb. 1986HUHungarian pornographic actress
- Brandy Smileb. 1986HUHungarian pornographic actress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 22 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 180 | #105,671 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 162 | #109,258 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 156 | #105,905 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 7 | #22,227 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Smile mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): Bucks and Berks. see Smewing . Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- In which country does Smile have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.5 thousand people named Smile in Algeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled smîlë.
- How common is the name Smile?
- In the United States, the national register counted 162 people named Smile in 2010, about 1 in 2.1 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/smileThe 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, “Smile”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.