Smeling Surname

7,117,718th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 7 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Dominican Republic
Highest density in:
Dominican Republic

Smeling Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Smeling Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Dominican Republic41:2,608,23320,941
United States21:181,229,4661,556,795
Mexico11:124,126,205103,776
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England141:1,741,09855,534
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States61:8,369,781355,680

Smeling (122) may also be a first name.

Smeling Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Smeling Come From? nationality or country of origin

The last name Smeling is found most frequently in The Dominican Republic. It can also be found in the variant forms:. Click here for further possible spellings of this surname.

How Common Is The Last Name Smeling? popularity and diffusion

Smeling is the 7,117,718th most frequently held family name on a worldwide basis. It is borne by around 1 in 1,041,077,988 people. The surname occurs mostly in The Americas, where 100 percent of Smeling live; 57 percent live in Caribbean and 57 percent live in Hispano-Caribbean. Smeling is also the 844,248th most numerous first name at a global level. It is borne by 122 people.

This last name is most numerous in The Dominican Republic, where it is held by 4 people, or 1 in 2,608,233. Barring The Dominican Republic Smeling occurs in 2 countries. It is also common in The United States, where 29 percent are found and Mexico, where 14 percent are found.

Smeling Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The incidence of Smeling has changed over time. In The United States the number of people who held the Smeling last name contracted 67 percent between 1880 and 2014.

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Footnotes

  • Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
  • Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
  • Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
  • Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
  • Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
  • Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Smeling
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