Smiley

Smiley is the 1,849th most common surname in the United States, shared by 19,041 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 15,700.

By the numbers

People: 19,041
Rank: 1,849th
How common: 1 in 15,700
Per 100,000: 6.4

Where the name comes from

Origin a nickname

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Smiley described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 59.6%
Black, not Hispanic 30.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.6%
Hispanic or Latino 2.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 2.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Smiley

Jane Smiley (born 1949)American novelist
Michael Smiley (born 1963)British actor

People named Smiley with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Smiley

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.