The NESMITH surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	6,898	4698	0.003	26
United States (1880 census)	911	5904	0.002	18
Change since 1880	+5987	+1206	+0.001	+8
Other Countries
Australia	2	235338	0	0
United Kingdom	20	28576	0	0

Top States for NESMITH by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Georgia	1,003	1208	0.012	123
South Carolina	758	985	0.019	189
Florida	754	3116	0.005	47
Texas	554	4398	0.003	27
Pennsylvania	549	3195	0.004	45
Top States for NESMITH by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
South Carolina	758	985	0.019	189
Georgia	1,003	1208	0.012	123
Alabama	493	1640	0.011	111
Washington DC	42	1671	0.007	73
Florida	754	3116	0.005	47

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called NESMITH live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called NESMITH represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called NESMITH in Georgia than any other state, but you are more likely to find a NESMITH by picking someone at random in South Carolina than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of NESMITH

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the NESMITH surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the NESMITH surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of NESMITH in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	218	3.16
Mixed Race	84	1.22
Asian/Pacific	40	0.58
Native American/Alaskan	31	0.45
White (Caucasian)	3,836	55.61
Black/African American	2,689	38.98

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the NESMITH surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Similar names to NESMITH

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as NESMITH.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.