Smith

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Smith is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 109 births. Its best rank was 326th, in 1885.

Rank in 2024: —outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024: 1090.01% of boys
Peak year: 2016162 births
Best rank: #326in 1885
Since 1880: 5,535people given the name

Babies named Smith, by year of birthboys

The story in the numbers

5,354 boys have been named Smith in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2016, with 162 births.

It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1979, and the 2010s alone account for 23%. It has spent 50 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 181 girls have also been given it, 3.3% of the total.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	boys named Smith
1880s	181
1890s	143
1900s	168
1910s	481
1920s	559
1930s	376
1940s	277
1950s	199
1960s	164
1970s	131
1980s	220
1990s	204
2000s	394
2010s	1,258
2020s	599

In 2016, its biggest year

Smith was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2016 were Noah, Liam, William, Mason and James. See all of 2016.

Names that rose and fell with Smith

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.