Smart

At the 2020 census, 24,507 Americans bore the surname Smart — 1,414th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 12,200.

By the numbers

People: 24,507
Rank: 1,414th
How common: 1 in 12,200
Per 100,000: 8.2

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 69.4%
Black, not Hispanic 20.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.2%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.0%

Notable people called Smart

Amy Smart (born 1976)American actress
Elizabeth Smart (born 1987)American activist
J. J. C. Smart (1920–2012)Australian philosopher and academic
Christopher Smart (1722–1771)English poet, hymnwriter, editor
Olivia Smart (born 1997)British-Spanish ice dancer
Tamara Smart (born 2005)English actress
Erinn Smart (born 1980)fencer
Ninian Smart (1927–2001)British academic

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

Surnames like Smart

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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.