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    The surname Smallman

    A nickname surname, carried by 533 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex S545

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Smallman is more common than 74.8% of them.

    Origin

    From small + man, either a nickname for a short person or a feudal term denoting a subtenant.

    Smallman is a nickname surname: from a description or nickname of an ancestor.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 533 people named Smallman in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 579,260 Americans. That is down 4.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 558.

    #40,909
    rank among US surnames
    533
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    -4.5%
    change since 2000 (was #37,534)

    Who is named Smallman

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

    92% of people named Smallman identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.6% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.4% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 92%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 2.6%
    • Two or more races 2.4%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.7%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.3%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Smallman

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

    Questions

    Where does the surname Smallman come from?
    From small + man, either a nickname for a short person or a feudal term denoting a subtenant.
    How common is the surname Smallman?
    533 people in the United States had the surname Smallman in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 579,260 Americans. It ranked 40,909th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Smallman?
    In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Smallman identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.6% as Black (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Smallman?
    Smallman is a nickname surname, from a description or nickname of an ancestor.
    Is the surname Smallman getting more or less common?
    Less common. 558 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 533 in 2010, down 4.5%.