Smitherman

At the 2020 census, 3,345 Americans bore the surname Smitherman — 9,338th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 89,400.

By the numbers

People: 3,345
Rank: 9,338th
How common: 1 in 89,400
Per 100,000: 1.1

Where the name comes from

Origin an occupational name

Occupational surname for someone who assisted a blacksmith, from Middle English smithiere (“blacksmith”) + -man.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 79.3%
Black, not Hispanic 13.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.4%
Hispanic or Latino 2.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Surnames like Smitherman

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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.