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The surname Smead

A surname, carried by 1,395 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex S530

Smead: #19,379 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Smead #19,379, 1,395 people Smead: #19,379 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Smead #19,379, 1,395 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Smead is more common than 88.1% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,395 people named Smead in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 221,323 Americans. That is down 3.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,443.

#19,379
rank among US surnames
1,395
people in 2010
0.5
per 100,000 Americans
-3.3%
change since 2000 (was #17,884)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#19,372Crass1,396221,164
#19,379Persad1,395221,323

Who is named Smead

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

91% of people named Smead identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.2% as two or more races and 3.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

  • White (not Hispanic) 91%
  • Two or more races 3.2%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.1%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 1.4%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.1%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Smead

Smead has the Soundex code S530, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S530.

Questions

How common is the surname Smead?
1,395 people in the United States had the surname Smead in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 221,323 Americans. It ranked 19,379th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Smead?
In the 2010 Census, 91% of people named Smead identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.2% as two or more races.
Is the surname Smead getting more or less common?
Less common. 1,443 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,395 in 2010, down 3.3%.