Schmid
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Occupational surname: smith/metalworker; bearer count not given on this page
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ʃmiːt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Schmid is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country, where it is the 2nd most common surname.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 278(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 189as Schmidt
- ATAustria≈1 in 951as 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 Schmid 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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- #404 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 552 (measured from records)
- 1 in 278 (inferred from the name graph)
≈420,000 named Schmidt, est.
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Schmidt in US United States, DE Germany, CA Canada.
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(measured from records)
Occupational surname: smith/metalworker; bearer count not given on this page.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Schmid 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | #2 | ≈420,000 est. | ≈1 in 189 | listed | Schmidt | 329 |
| US United States | #154 | 147,034as Schmidt | 1 in 2.3K | 147K | Schmidt | 552 |
| CH Switzerland | #2 | 30,219 | 1 in 278 | 30K | Schmid | 158 |
| BR Brazil | — | 26,228as Schmidt | 1 in 8.1K | 26K | — | 9 |
| CA Canada | #118 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 2K | — | Schmidt | 232 |
| DK Denmark | — | 15,691as Schmidt | 1 in 374 | 16K | — | 6 |
| AT Austria | #4 | ≈9,300 est. | ≈1 in 951 | 2 | Schmid | 143 |
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; the dfa-band-2 register; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Schmid is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Plate shows o/ö vowel variation in this surname type. Bearer count: 105.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
In German, a surname originating as an occupation
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, Berufsname zu mhd. smit/schmied ‘Schmied’; die Karte zeigt Dentale Plosive (d/t) in Schreibvarianten; kein einzelner Bearer-Count genannt.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
In German, Berufsname zu Schmied ‘Schmied’; die Karte zeigt die Auslautvariation mit Dentale: d/tt/tz sowie die Form Schmidt.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
In German, Berufsname zu ahd. smid, altsächs. smith 'Schmied'; zeigt auslautende Dentalvarianz d. 37.468 Belege.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Christoph von Schmidb. 1768DEGerman priest, writer and educator (1768–1854)
- Carlo Schmidb. 1896DEGerman academic and politician of the social-democratic SPD (1896-1979)
- Daniel Schmidb. 1941CHSwiss film and theater director (1941–2006)
- Samuel Schmidb. 1947CHmember of the Swiss Federal Council
- Harald Schmidb. 1957DEGerman track-and-field athlete
- Hans-Christian Schmidb. 1965DEGerman film director and screenwriter (born 1965)
- Kyle Schmidb. 1984CACanadian actor
- Jonathan Schmidb. 1990FRFrench professional footballer
- Katharina Schmidb. 1996DEGerman female ski jumper (born 1996)
- Romano Schmidb. 2000ATAustrian association football player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 38 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 30K | #3 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 11K | #3,165 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 11K | #2,965 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 11K | #3,219 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 585 | #14,767 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 42 | #12,309 |
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 2 | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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
- What does the name Schmid mean, and where does it come from?
- Occupational surname: smith/metalworker; bearer count not given on this page. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen.
- How do you pronounce Schmid?
- A machine transcription gives /ʃmiːt/ (IPA) for German.
- In which country does Schmid have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 424 thousand people named Schmidt in Germany, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Schmid most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Schmid is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 278 people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Schmid?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 30,219 people named Schmid in 2024, about 1 in 278 residents.
- How common is Schmid compared with other names?
- In Germany, Schmid is the 2nd most common surname of 765,306 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/schmidThe 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), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Schmid” — the 2nd most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.