Blacksmith
surname · Latin script
Meaning: occupational name from Middle English blaksmith ‘blacksmith’, denoting one who worked in iron
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/blæksmɪθ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Blacksmith is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 454K(measured from records)
- CACanada≈1 in 249K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 584K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 181 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 249K (inferred from the name graph)
732 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Canada, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
occupational name from Middle English blaksmith ‘blacksmith’, denoting one who worked in iron. Further information: This name is rare in Britain but is thriving in the USA.
Sources 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Blacksmith 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 | 732 | 1 in 454K | 732 | Blacksmith | 181 |
| CA Canada | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 249K | — | Blacksmith | 58 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈79 est. | ≈1 in 837K | — | Blacksmith | 41 |
| IT Italy | ≈75 est. | ≈1 in 834K | — | Blacksmith | 4 |
| IN India | ≈63 est. | ≈1 in 21M | — | Blacksmith | 9 |
| AU Australia | ≈44 est. | ≈1 in 584K | — | Blacksmith | 17 |
| IL Israel | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 751K | — | Blacksmith | 6 |
732 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. 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Blacksmith is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A person who forges iron.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, kebi, nga- li-mo, hgai-mo
as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Waapikun Blacksmithb. 1990film director
- Quinton Blacksmithb. 1998film director
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 6 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 732 | #31,587 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 727 | #33,699 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 678 | #32,094 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Blacksmith come from?
- occupational name from Middle English blaksmith ‘blacksmith’, denoting one who worked in iron. Further information: This name is rare in Britain but is thriving in the USA. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- How do you pronounce Blacksmith?
- A machine transcription gives /blæksmɪθ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Blacksmith mean?
- Recorded meaning: occupational name from Middle English blaksmith ‘blacksmith’, denoting one who worked in iron.
- In which country does Blacksmith have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 732 people named Blacksmith, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled blacksmith.
- How common is the name Blacksmith?
- In the United States, the national register counted 732 people named Blacksmith in 2010, about 1 in 454 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/blacksmithThe 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, “Blacksmith”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.