Smail Last Name: Meaning and Heraldic Roots

A coat of arms belongs to a particular family line rather than to everyone named Smail, so the heraldry linked to Small is a starting point, not an automatic right.

What Smail means

Smail is a familiar spelling of the English name Small. The family name meaning is “Slender, small”, the same as for Small.

Records show Smail as one of the forms Small took over time. Other spellings include Smale and Smalle. From 1891 to 2000, 811 births in France were registered under Smail. The 2010 US Census counted 9,097 people named Smail, ranking it number 3,900 among American surnames.

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