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The surname Smoker

A surname, carried by 1,778 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex S526

Smoker: #16,238 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Smoker #16,238, 1,778 people Smoker: #16,238 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Smoker #16,238, 1,778 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Smoker is more common than 90% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,778 people named Smoker in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 173,648 Americans. That is up 26% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,410.

#16,238
rank among US surnames
1,778
people in 2010
0.6
per 100,000 Americans
+26.1%
change since 2000 (was #18,196)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#16,238Smoker1,778173,648
#16,247Haddon1,777173,745

Who is named Smoker

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

90% of people named Smoker identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.8% as American Indian and Alaska Native and 2.1% as Black (not Hispanic).

  • White (not Hispanic) 90%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 4.8%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 2.1%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.5%
  • Two or more races 1.4%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Smoker

Smoker has the Soundex code S526, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S526.

Questions

How common is the surname Smoker?
1,778 people in the United States had the surname Smoker in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 173,648 Americans. It ranked 16,238th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Smoker?
In the 2010 Census, 90% of people named Smoker identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.8% as American Indian and Alaska Native.
Is the surname Smoker getting more or less common?
More common. 1,410 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,778 in 2010, up 26%.