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    The surname Smithey

    A Norse place surname, carried by 2,544 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex S530

    Smithey: #12,231 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Smithey #12,231, 2,544 people Smithey: #12,231 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Smithey #12,231, 2,544 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Smithey is more common than 92.5% of them.

    Origin

    Norse origin

    Topographic surname for someone who lived near a forge, from Middle English smythy, itself from Old Norse smiðja (“forge”).

    Smithey is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    One of 126 Norse surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 2,544 people named Smithey in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 121,362 Americans. That is up 11% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,287.

    #12,231
    rank among US surnames
    2,544
    people in 2010
    0.9
    per 100,000 Americans
    +11.2%
    change since 2000 (was #12,450)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #12,227Greenhalgh2,546121,267
    #12,229Check2,545121,315
    #12,231Dumond2,544121,362
    #12,236Maly2,543121,410
    #12,238Doby2,542121,458

    Who is named Smithey

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

    94% of people named Smithey identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.5% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 94%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
    • Two or more races 1.5%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 1.2%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Variant spellings

    • Smithee

    Surnames that sound like Smithey

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

    Other Norse surnames

    All 126 Norse surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Smithey come from?
    Topographic surname for someone who lived near a forge, from Middle English smythy, itself from Old Norse smiðja (“forge”).
    How common is the surname Smithey?
    2,544 people in the United States had the surname Smithey in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 121,362 Americans. It ranked 12,231st of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Smithey?
    In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Smithey identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    What type of surname is Smithey?
    Smithey is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Smithey getting more or less common?
    More common. 2,287 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,544 in 2010, up 11%.
    What are other spellings of Smithey?
    Smithee.