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)
The name Smith is the #3,709 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 5,418 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 52.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 52.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,653 (63.9% percentile) for all time with 5,245 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,543 (3.0% percentile) for all time with 173 births since 1972.
Smith has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1972 for girls).
The name Smith has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 96.8% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 95.0% of babies named Smith were boys.
For boys, Smith reached its peak popularity in 2016, achieving the 17.1% percentile (ranked #764) with 80 births per million. The name was most common in 1885, with 241 births per million (ranked 11.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Smith ranks #803 for boys (11.9% percentile) with 62 births per million, which is 25.6% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Smith reached its peak popularity in 2018, achieving the 1.1% percentile (ranked #950) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 2018, with 9 births per million (ranked 1.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2019, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Smith ranks #946 for girls (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 39.9% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Smith".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Smith. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Smith is pronounced as smihth, which has 1 syllables.
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