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    The surname Smail

    A surname, carried by 9,097 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex S540

    Smail: #3,900 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Smail #3,900, 9,097 people Smail: #3,900 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Smail #3,900, 9,097 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Smail is more common than 97.6% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 9,097 people named Smail in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 33,939 Americans. That is up 446% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,665.

    #3,900
    rank among US surnames
    9,097
    people in 2010
    3.1
    per 100,000 Americans
    +446.4%
    change since 2000 (was #16,010)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #3,891Avina9,12233,846
    #3,893Cordell9,11933,857
    #3,894Gingerich9,11733,865
    #3,895Forster9,11633,869
    #3,896Olivera9,10833,898
    #3,897Melgar9,10633,906
    #3,898Knudsen9,10433,913

    Who is named Smail

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    66% of people named Smail identified as white (not Hispanic), 28% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.5% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 66%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 28%
    • Two or more races 2.5%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Smail

    Smail has the Soundex code S540, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S540.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Smail?
    9,097 people in the United States had the surname Smail in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 33,939 Americans. It ranked 3,900th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Smail?
    In the 2010 Census, 66% of people named Smail identified as white (not Hispanic), and 28% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Smail getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,665 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 9,097 in 2010, up 446%.