Smelling Surname

3,602,217th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 30 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
United States
Highest density in:
Australia

Smelling Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Smelling Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States201:18,122,947588,089
Australia51:5,399,140162,351
Canada21:18,422,796409,488
Nigeria21:88,571,379625,098
England11:55,718,059489,080
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England211:1,160,73243,748
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States291:1,731,67989,620

Smelling (39) may also be a first name.

Smelling Last Name Facts

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

The surname Smelling is found in The United States more than any other country/territory. It can be rendered as:. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.

How Common Is The Last Name Smelling? popularity and diffusion

It is the 3,602,217th most frequently held surname on a worldwide basis It is held by approximately 1 in 242,918,197 people. This last name is primarily found in The Americas, where 73 percent of Smelling are found; 73 percent are found in North America and 73 percent are found in Anglo-North America. Smelling is also the 1,637,361st most common given name world-wide, held by 39 people.

Smelling is most frequent in The United States, where it is borne by 20 people, or 1 in 18,122,947. In The United States Smelling is mostly concentrated in: Washington, where 30 percent live, Indiana, where 20 percent live and Arizona, where 5 percent live. Outside of The United States it occurs in 4 countries. It also occurs in Australia, where 17 percent live and Canada, where 7 percent live.

Smelling Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The frequency of Smelling has changed over time. In The United States the number of people carrying the Smelling surname fell 31 percent between 1880 and 2014 and in England it fell 95 percent between 1881 and 2014.

Smelling Last Name Statistics demography

Smelling earn around the same as the average income. In United States they earn 0.38% more than the national average, earning $43,312 USD per year.

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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
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  • 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 Smelling
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