Why the preponderance of "Smiths" among people with occupation-based surnames? Surely there should be far more "Farmers," shouldn't there?

by DerbyWearingDude
Keyserchief

I think you may be interested in this previous thread, posing an almost identical question. Some of the comments are speculative (and I'm a bit skeptical if they would stay up in today's sub), but there's some material there that's on point.