A silly question :)

When we were learning English back in school, very often "Mr. Smith" will be used to represent (stereotype) an English name ---- I never thought about why, only felt that Smith was probably a very popular last name in English-speaking countries. Now that we spent so many years here, honestly I just realized that I never met a single Smith, Mr or Mrs ... Did any1 of you guys meet any ever? :)

If not, why was Smith chosen at the first place?

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• Yes, my former coworker was a Mr. Smith -writeinwater- ♀ (302 bytes) () 11/03/2011 postreply 15:55:22

• See these links -innercool- ♂ (463 bytes) () 11/03/2011 postreply 21:21:53

• haha... that is funny. that is almost like 1 out 15 Americans is -idiot94- ♂ (334 bytes) () 11/05/2011 postreply 06:56:34

• If we take 50 names random, the Prop.(no smish)about 60%. -jinjing- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/05/2011 postreply 12:51:32