Frequency: (138)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Scottish and English: habitational name from any of various places, notably Smeaton near Edinburgh, Great, Little, and Kirk Smeaton in North Yorkshire, or Smeeton in Leicestershire, all named with Old English Smiðatūn ‘settlement (Old English tūn) of the smiths’.
See the Key to the Dictionary or consult the General Introduction for further explanation.
