Small

At the 2020 census, 44,613 Americans bore the surname Small — 761st out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 6,700.

By the numbers

People: 44,613
Rank: 761st
How common: 1 in 6,700
Per 100,000: 14.9

Where the name comes from

. Compare Smail.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Small described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 59.3%
Black, not Hispanic 31.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.2%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Small

John Kunkel Small (1869–1938)American botanist
Millie Small (1947–2020)Jamaican singer
Albion Woodbury Small (1854–1926)American sociologist
Sharon Small (born 1967)British actress
Irving Small (1891–1955)American ice hockey player
Xochitl Torres Small (born 1984)American politician from New Mexico
Heather Small (born 1965)British singer
Kim Small (born 1965)Australian field hockey player

People named Small with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Small

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.