How common is the surname Smitherman?

3,521 people in the United States had the surname Smitherman in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 87,687 Americans. It ranked 9,245th of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Smitherman getting more or less common?

More common. 3,414 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,521 in 2010, up 3.1%.

The surname Smitherman

An English occupational surname, carried by 3,521 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex S536

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Smitherman is more common than 94.3% of them.

Origin

English origin

Occupational surname for someone who assisted a blacksmith, from Middle English smithiere (“blacksmith”) + -man.

Smitherman is an occupational surname: named after the work an ancestor did.

One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 3,521 people named Smitherman in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 87,687 Americans. That is up 3.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,414.

#9,245

rank among US surnames

3,521

people in 2010

1.2

per 100,000 Americans

+3.1%

change since 2000 (was #8,832)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#9,236	Trader	3,525	87,587
#9,237	Bennet	3,523	87,637
#9,241	Kost	3,522	87,662
#9,245	Kinsman	3,521	87,687
#9,251	Cui	3,520	87,712
#9,253	Talton	3,519	87,737

Who is named Smitherman

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

83% of people named Smitherman identified as white (not Hispanic), 13% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.9% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 83%
Black (not Hispanic) 13%
Two or more races 1.9%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.4%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Variant spellings

Smitheram

Surnames that sound like Smitherman

Smitherman has the Soundex code S536, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S536.

Other English surnames

All 1,446 English surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Smitherman come from?: Occupational surname for someone who assisted a blacksmith, from Middle English smithiere (“blacksmith”) + -man.
How common is the surname Smitherman?: 3,521 people in the United States had the surname Smitherman in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 87,687 Americans. It ranked 9,245th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Smitherman?: In the 2010 Census, 83% of people named Smitherman identified as white (not Hispanic), and 13% as Black (not Hispanic).
What type of surname is Smitherman?: Smitherman is an occupational surname, named after the work an ancestor did.
Is the surname Smitherman getting more or less common?: More common. 3,414 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,521 in 2010, up 3.1%.
What are other spellings of Smitherman?: Smitheram.