Šmidt
surname · Latin script
Šmidt is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- EEEstonia≈1 in 54K(inferred from the name graph)
- GLGreenland1 in 273as Schmidt
- DKDenmark1 in 374as Schmidt
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Šmidt itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 11 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 54K (inferred from the name graph)
147,034 named Schmidt, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Estonia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Schmidt in US United States and Smidt in CH Switzerland.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Šmidt counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 147,034as Schmidt | 1 in 2.3K | 147K | Schmidt | 2 |
| BR Brazil | 26,228as Schmidt | 1 in 8.1K | 26K | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 15,691as Schmidt | 1 in 374 | 16K | — | — |
| AR Argentina | 11,727as Schmidt | 1 in 3.9K | 12K | — | — |
| PL Poland | 6,221as Schmidt | 1 in 6.2K | 3.4K | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 5,684as Schmidt | 1 in 1.5K | 5.7K | Smidt | 4 |
| NO Norway | 1,788as Schmidt | 1 in 3.1K | 1.8K | — | — |
| GL Greenland | 211as Schmidt | 1 in 273 | 211 | — | — |
| EE Estonia | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 54K | 12 | Šmidt | 2 |
147,034 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Statistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1); Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 6 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EE Estonia | Siseministeerium — population register name list 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Šmidt have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 147 thousand people named Schmidt, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Šmidt?
- In the United States, the national register counted 147,034 people named Schmidt in 2010, about 1 in 2.3 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Šmidt?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C5%A1midtThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Šmidt”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.