Smith

See also: smith and smiþ

English

Alternative forms

• Smyth
• Smythe

Etymology

From smith.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /smɪθ/

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Proper noun

Smith (plural Smiths)

1. An English surname​ (the most common in Britain, the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand).
   • 1852 August 1, D. H. Jacques, “A Chapter on Names”, in The Knickerbocker, or, New-York Monthly Magazine, volume XL, page 114:

     John is a most excellent name, and Smith is a surname which is worthy of respect and honor, but wo to the man on whom they are conjoined! For John Smith to aspire to senatorial dignities or to the laurel of a poet is simply ridiculous. Who is John Smith? He is lost in the multitude of John Smiths, and individual fame is impossible.

2. A hamlet in Alberta, Canada
3. A ghost town in California
4. An unincorporated community in Galena Township, LaPorte County, Indiana, USA
5. An unincorporated community in Kentucky
6. An unincorporated community in Nevada
7. An unincorporated community in South Carolina

Derived terms

• Deaf Smith County
• Fort Smith
• Smith Center (place)
• Smith County

Translations

transliterations of the name Smith

• Arabic: سْمِيث‎ (smīṯ)
• Armenian: Սմիթ (Smitʿ)
• Belarusian: Сміт m, f (Smit)
• Bulgarian: Смит m, f (Smit)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 史密斯 (zh) (Shǐmìsī)

• Georgian: სმიტ (smiṭ)
• Greek: Σμιθ (Smith)
• Hebrew: סמית‎
• Hindi: स्मिथ (smith)
• Inuktitut: ᔅᒥᑦ (smit)
• Japanese: スミス (Sumisu)
• Korean: 스미스 (seumiseu)

• Latvian: Smits m, Smita f
• Macedonian: Смит m, f (Smit)
• Persian: اسمیت‎ (Ismit)
• Russian: Смит (ru) m, f (Smit)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Смит m, f

  Roman: Smith m, f, Smit m, f

• Sinhalese: ස්මිත් (smit)
• Tamil: ஸ்மித் (smit)
• Telugu: స్మిత్ (smit)
• Thai: สมิท (sàmít), สมิธ (sàmíth)
• Ukrainian: Сміт m, f (Smit)

surnames derived from the equivalents of “smith”

• Albanian: Nallbani
• Arabic: حَدَّاد‎ (ḥaddād)
• Armenian: Դարբինյան (Darbinyan), Տարպինյան (Tarpinyan)
• Breton: Goff
• Bulgarian: Ковачев m (Kovačev)
• Catalan: Ferrer (ca)
• Czech: Kovář m
• Danish: Smed
• Dutch: Smit, Smid
• Estonian: Sepp
• Finnish: Seppänen (fi), Seppälä (fi), Seppä (fi), Seppäläinen (fi)
• French: Lefèvre (fr), Lefébure (fr), Lefebvre (fr)
• Galician: Ferreiro m
• Georgian: მჭედლიშვილი (mč̣edlišvili)
• German: Schmidt (de), Schmied (de)
• Greek: Σιδεράς (Siderás), Σιδέρης (Sidéris)
• Hungarian: Kovács (hu)
• Irish: Mac Gabhann
• Italian: Ferraro, Ferrari, Ferrero, Ferreri, Fabbri, Ferri, Ferro
• Japanese: 鍛冶 (ja) (かじ, Kaji), 鍛治 (かじ, Kaji), 加治 (かじ, Kaji), 鍛冶屋 (ja) (‎かじや, Kajiya), 鍛治屋 (かじや, Kajiya), 加治屋 (かじや, Kajiya)
• Latvian: Kalējs m, Kalēja f
• Lithuanian: Kalvaitis (lt) m

• Manx: Mac y Ghaauin m
• Navajo: Atsidii, Etsiddy (anglicized)
• Norwegian: Smed
• Occitan: Fabre, Fabré, Faure, Fauré
• Persian: زرگر‎ (fa) (zargar)
• Polish: Kowalski (pl) m, Kowal (pl), Kowalczuk, Kowalczyk (pl)
• Portuguese: Ferreira, Ferreiro
• Romani: Petulengro
• Romanian: Fieraru
• Russian: Кузнецо́в (ru) m (Kuznecóv), Ковалёв (ru) m (Kovaljóv)
• Scottish Gaelic: Mac a' Ghobhainn
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Ковач m, Ковачевић m

  Roman: Kovač m, Kovačević m

• Slovak: Kováč m, Kováčik
• Slovene: Kovač (sl), Kovačič
• Spanish: Herrera (es), Herrero (es)
• Swedish: Smed
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: Demirci (tr)
• Ukrainian: Коваль m (Koval’)

most common surnames by language

• Arabic: حَدَّاد‎ (ḥaddād)
• Armenian: Հովհաննիսյան (Hovhannisyan)
• Catalan: Garcia (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 王 (zh) (Wáng)

• Czech: Novák (cs)
• Danish: Jensen
• Dutch: Jansen, De Jong, De Vries
• Finnish: Virtanen (fi), Korhonen (fi)
• French: Martin (fr)
• Galician: Rodríguez
• German: Müller (de), Schmidt (de)
• Greek: Παπαδόπουλος (el) (Papadópoulos), Βλάχος (el) (Vláchos)
• Hebrew: כֹּהֵן‎ (he) (Kōhēn)
• Hindi: सिंह (hi) (sinh)

• Hungarian: Nagy (hu)
• Italian: Rossi, Russo
• Japanese: 佐藤 (ja) (さとう, Satō)
• Korean: 김 (ko) (gim)
• Latvian: Bērziņš m, Bērziņa f
• Polish: Nowak (pl)
• Portuguese: Silva (pt)
• Russian: Смирно́в (ru) (Smirnóv)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Хорват

  Roman: Horvat

• Slovene: Novak
• Spanish: Fernández (es), García (es), Hernández (es)
• Vietnamese: Nguyễn (vi)

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Smith is the most common surname in the United States, belonging to 2,442,977 individuals. Smith is most common among White (70.9%) and Black/African American (23.1%) individuals.

See also

• Smith (surname) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from English Smith.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /smit/

Proper noun

Smith

1. A surname​.