Smārt
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Smārt is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Middle English smerten, from Old English smeortan (“to smart”), from Proto-West Germanic *smertan, from Proto-Germanic *smertaną (“to hurt, ache”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)merd- (“to bite, s.
- USUnited States1 in 13K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 376K
- VCSt. Vincent & Grenadines1 in 573
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 129 (measured from records)
- 1 in 573 (inferred from the name graph)
25,528 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
St. Vincent & Grenadines
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Smart in US United States, AR Argentina, CU Cuba.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- Middle Englishsmerten(measured from records)
- Old Englishsmeortan“to smart”(measured from records)
- Proto-West Germanic*smertan(measured from records)
- Proto-Germanic*smertaną“to hurt“to hurt, ache”(measured from records)
- Proto-Indo-European*s(measured from records)
From Middle English smerten, from Old English smeortan (“to smart”), from Proto-West Germanic *smertan, from Proto-Germanic *smertaną (“to hurt, ache”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)merd- (“to bite, sting”). Cognate with Scots smert, Dutch smarten, German schmerzen, Danish smerte, Swedish smärta.
Sources 4
- A dictionary of surnames
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
- Wiktionary
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Smārt counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 25,528 | 1 in 13K | 26K | Smart | 129 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | — | 177 | 1 in 573 | 177 | — | — |
| ES Spain | — | 162 | 1 in 309K | 162 | — | 23 |
| AR Argentina | — | 121 | 1 in 376K | 121 | Smart | 47 |
| GD Grenada | — | 120 | 1 in 942 | 120 | — | — |
| FI Finland | — | 59 | 1 in 94K | 59 | — | 2 |
| GY Guyana | — | 24 | 1 in 31K | 24 | — | — |
| CU Cuba | #513 | — | — | — | Smart | 3 |
25,528 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Smārt mean, and where does it come from?
- From Middle English smerten, from Old English smeortan (“to smart”), from Proto-West Germanic *smertan, from Proto-Germanic *smertaną (“to hurt, ache”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)merd- (“to bite, s… Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles and 2 other sources.
- Is Smārt a male or female name?
- Smārt is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Smārt have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 26 thousand people named Smārt, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled smart.
- Where is Smārt most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Smārt is densest in St. Vincent & Grenadines — about 1 in 573 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Smārt?
- In the United States, the national register counted 25,528 people named Smārt in 2010, about 1 in 13 thousand residents.
- How common is Smārt compared with other names?
- In Cuba, Smārt is the 513th most common surname of 21,589 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sm%C4%81rtThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Smārt” — the 513th most common surname in Cuba. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.