How common is the surname Smetana?

1,501 people in the United States had the surname Smetana in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 205,693 Americans. It ranked 18,440th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Smetana?

In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Smetana identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Smetana getting more or less common?

Less common. 1,539 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,501 in 2010, down 2.5%.

The surname Smetana

A surname, carried by 1,501 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex S535

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Smetana is more common than 88.6% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,501 people named Smetana in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 205,693 Americans. That is down 2.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,539.

#18,440

rank among US surnames

1,501

people in 2010

0.5

per 100,000 Americans

-2.5%

change since 2000 (was #17,014)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#18,431	Goggans	1,502	205,556
#18,440	Montz	1,501	205,693
#18,448	Ristau	1,500	205,830

Who is named Smetana

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

96% of people named Smetana identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.6% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.7%
Two or more races 1.6%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Surnames that sound like Smetana

Santana

Smetana has the Soundex code S535, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S535.

Questions

How common is the surname Smetana?: 1,501 people in the United States had the surname Smetana in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 205,693 Americans. It ranked 18,440th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Smetana?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Smetana identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Smetana getting more or less common?: Less common. 1,539 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,501 in 2010, down 2.5%.