Smiles

See also: smiles and SMILES

English

Etymology

Two main origins:

• Scottish patronymic surname from Small.
• English topographic surname for someone who lived near a rabbit warren, from the plural of Old English smygel (“burrow”).

Proper noun

Smiles (plural Smileses)

1. A surname from Old English.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Smiles is the 42455^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 511 individuals. Smiles is most common among White (66.73%) and Black/African American (23.78%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Smiles”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.

Anagrams

• Selims, Slimes, milses, misles, missel, slimes