Smith

girls:

173 births since 1972

#5543 (3rd percentile)

boys:

5.2k births since 1880

#1653 (64th percentile)

overall:

5.4k births since 1880

#3709 (52nd percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Smith".

1880 2023 18802023

Key Statistics

Total Births
173
Peak Births
16
Peak Year
2018
First Recorded
1972
Peak Percentile
1.1%
Current Percentile
0.1%
Peak Rank
#743
Current Rank
#946
Female statistics
Total Births
5,245
Peak Births
162
Peak Year
2016
First Recorded
1880
Peak Percentile
17.1%
Current Percentile
11.9%
Peak Rank
#173
Current Rank
#803
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Smith

Our model found one way to pronounce the name Smith. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 100.0% confident that Smith is pronounced as smihth.

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smihth (1 syllable)
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S M IH1 TH

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Smith. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Smith, please vote using the thumbs up button.

suh-MIH-thuh (3 syllables)
1 name 222 births
S AH0 M IH1 TH AH0

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suh-MIHTH (2 syllables)
2 names 56 births
S AH0 M IH1 TH

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About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like S M IH1 TH) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.