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    The surname Smalling

    A surname, carried by 1,701 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex S545

    Smalling: #16,789 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Smalling #16,789, 1,701 people Smalling: #16,789 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Smalling #16,789, 1,701 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Smalling is more common than 89.7% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,701 people named Smalling in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 181,508 Americans. That is up 6.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,593.

    #16,789
    rank among US surnames
    1,701
    people in 2010
    0.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    +6.8%
    change since 2000 (was #16,586)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #16,781Dechant1,702181,402
    #16,789Piggott1,701181,508
    #16,798Kuss1,700181,615

    Who is named Smalling

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

    76% of people named Smalling identified as white (not Hispanic), 19% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 76%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 19%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.7%
    • Two or more races 1.4%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Smalling

    Smalling has the Soundex code S545, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S545.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Smalling?
    1,701 people in the United States had the surname Smalling in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 181,508 Americans. It ranked 16,789th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Smalling?
    In the 2010 Census, 76% of people named Smalling identified as white (not Hispanic), and 19% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Smalling getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,593 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,701 in 2010, up 6.8%.