Smalley

At the 2020 census, 10,802 Americans bore the surname Smalley — 3,263rd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 27,700.

By the numbers

People: 10,802
Rank: 3,263rd
How common: 1 in 27,700
Per 100,000: 3.6

Where the name comes from

From Old English smæl (“narrow”) + lēah (“wood, clearing”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 82.4%
Black, not Hispanic 9.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Smalley

Richard Smalley (1943–2005)American chemist
Phillips Smalley (1865–1939)American actor and film director

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

Surnames like Smalley

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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.