Smedley

At the 2020 census, 4,185 Americans bore the surname Smedley — 7,623rd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 71,400.

By the numbers

People: 4,185
Rank: 7,623rd
How common: 1 in 71,400
Per 100,000: 1.4

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

Perhaps from Old English smēþe (“smooth”) + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 78.4%
Black, not Hispanic 10.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.0%
Hispanic or Latino 4.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Smedley

Agnes Smedley (1892–1950)American journalist, writer, Comintern spy
Constance Smedley (1876–1941)author and founder of the International Lyceum Clubs

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

Surnames like Smedley

Smeltzer

Try it on yourself

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.