The GOLDSMITH surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	16,238	2046	0.006	60
United States (1880 census)	4,926	1260	0.01	99
Change since 1880	+11312	-786	-0.004	-39
Other Countries
Australia	1,531	1072	0.009	94
United Kingdom	6,373	990	0.014	139

Top States for GOLDSMITH by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	1,617	1065	0.009	85
California	1,595	1935	0.005	47
Florida	1,199	1630	0.008	75
Texas	915	2438	0.004	44
Ohio	666	1977	0.006	59
Top States for GOLDSMITH by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
South Carolina	473	1345	0.012	118
Maryland	575	996	0.011	109
Alabama	442	1548	0.010	99
Vermont	58	1781	0.010	95
Maine	121	1826	0.009	95

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

Classification and Origin of GOLDSMITH

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Occupational Name

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the GOLDSMITH 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 GOLDSMITH 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 GOLDSMITH in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	218	1.34
Mixed Race	190	1.17
Asian/Pacific	76	0.47
Native American/Alaskan	55	0.34
White (Caucasian)	13,197	81.27
Black/African American	2,502	15.41

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

Similar names to GOLDSMITH

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GOLDSMITH.

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.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.