American Family Name Origins:
Smethurst
Frequency: (206)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
English (Lancashire): habitational name from a minor place near Manchester, so named from Old English smēðe ‘smooth’ + hyrst ‘(wooded) hill’.
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