Smith Genealogy

Smith can refer to a person who practices smithing, to a very common family name or to part of a place name or location.

Family name
Smith as a surname is a common family name amongst those of English descent. Moreover, it was often taken by non-English immigrants in order to blend into the majority culture more easily. It is consequently the most common surname in both the United States, comprising more than 1% of the population counted during the 1990 census, and the United Kingdom.

Smith (metalwork).
A smith or metalsmith is a person involved in the shaping of metal objects.

John Smith – regarded as the most common name in England
The character Agent Smith from the Matrix trilogy also uses the ubiquitous name.Zacharias Smith is a character in the Harry Potter books by J.K. Rowling

International use
In other languages cognates to English "smith" tend to be very popular family names too:

Schmidt, Schmitt or Schmied in German
Kowalski, Kowal in Polish
Kalejs in Latvian
Kovac in Serbo-Croatian languages
Fabbri, Fabris, Ferrari in Italian
Faber is the Latin term for smith, found as a surname in several European languages.
Sepp in Estonian
Haddad in Arabic
Favre in French

Place names and locations
Smith is a common part of a place name or locations, particularly in the United States of America.

Deaf Smith County, Texas
Fort Smith, Arkansas
Fort Smith, Montana
Redbird Smith, Oklahoma
Smith Center, Kansas
Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts
Smith County, Kansas
Smith County, Mississippi
Smith County, Tennessee
Smith County, Texas
Smith Island, Maryland
Smith Islands National Park in Queensland, Australia
Smith Mills, Massachusetts
Smith River in western USA
Smith Township, Pennsylvania
Smith Valley, Nevada
Smith Village, Oklahoma
Smiths Station, Alabama

Other uses of "smith"
Alias Smith and Jones was a 1970s television comedy series on ABC.
Alas Smith and Jones was a 1980s television comedy sketch series shown on BBC. (Its name was a pun on that of Alias Smith and Jones.)
The Smiths were an English rock band.
Smiths Group plc - a British engineering company.
Smith & Wesson, a manufacturer of handguns
W H Smith, a high street chain of bookshops in the United Kingdom
Smith is a 1932 novel by Warwick Deeping.
Smith was a 1960s American rock band based out of St. Louis, Missouri.

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