Smithson

6,491 people in the United States were counted with the surname Smithson in the 2020 census, making it the 5,199th most common in the country. That is about one person in 46,000.

By the numbers

People: 6,491
Rank: 5,199th
How common: 1 in 46,000
Per 100,000: 2.2

Where the name comes from

Origin an occupational name, a patronymic

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 86.1%
Black, not Hispanic 6.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.9%
Hispanic or Latino 2.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Smithson

Robert Smithson (1938–1973)American sculptor and conceptual artist
James Smithson (1765–1829)British chemist
Forrest Smithson (1884–1962)athletics competitor
Carly Smithson (born 1983)Irish singer
Harriet Smithson (1800–1854)Anglo-Irish actress

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

Surnames like Smithson

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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.