Smith

See also: smith and smiþ

English

Etymology

From smith.

Alternative forms

• Smyth
• Smythe

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 Indiana
5. An unincorporated community in Kentucky
6. An unincorporated community in Nevada
7. An unincorporated community in South Carolina

Translations

transliterations of the name Smith

• Arabic: سْمِيث ‎(smīṯ)
• 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)

• Lojban: smit.
• Macedonian: Смит m, f ‎(Smit)
• Persian: اسمیت ‎(Ismit)
• Russian: Смит 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”

• Arabic: حَدَّاد ‎(ḥaddād)
• Armenian: Դարբինյան ‎(Darbinyan), Տարպինյան ‎(Tarpinyan)
• Catalan: Ferrer
• Czech: Kovář m
• Dutch: Smit, Smid
• Estonian: Sepp
• Finnish: Seppänen (fi), Seppälä (fi), Seppä (fi), Seppäläinen
• French: Lefèvre (fr), Lefébure (fr), Lefebvre (fr)
• 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
• Lithuanian: Kalvaitis (lt) m
• Manx: Mac y Ghaauin m
• Navajo: Atsidii, Etsiddy (anglicized)
• Occitan: Fabre, Fabré, Faure, Fauré
• Polish: Kowalski (pl) m
• 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

• Slovene: Kovač (sl), Kovačič
• Spanish: Herrera (es), Herrero (es)
• 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
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 王 (zh) ‎(Wáng)

• Czech: Novák (cs)
• Danish: Jensen
• Dutch: Jansen, De Jong, De Vries
• Finnish: Virtanen (fi), Korhonen (fi)
• French: Martin (fr)
• 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)
• 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)

See also

• Smith (surname) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Smith (surname)