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Smith

Pronounced /smɪθ/

Rank in 2024
#1,576
Born in 2024
109
Peak year
2016 · #1176
Origin
Not recorded

1880 to 2024

Uncommon
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 109 boys were named Smith, about 1 in every 15,737.
  • It peaked in 2016 with 162 babies, ranked #1176.
  • It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
  • 5,354 boys have been named Smith since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Smith per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

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Greatest: 1,082 babies, 0.06 per 1,000. Silent: 638 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Boomers: 401 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Gen X: 220 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Millennials: 336 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Gen Z: 713 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 1,614 babies, 0.07 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

From smith or Middle English Smith (“a surname”), alternative form of Smyth, itself from smyth (“smith”). Doublet of Schmidt, Smid, and Smit.

  • A male given name transferred from the surname.
Origin
Not recorded
Say it
/smɪθ/

From Wiktionary’s entry for Smith, CC BY-SA 4.0.