Schmit
surname · Latin script
Meaning: zu mhd. smid/Schmied ‘Metallarbeiter’; zeigt t-Varianz in Schmit- (6 Typen/239 Belege)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈʃmɪt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Schmit is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Luxembourg it is the 28th most common surname.
- USUnited States1 in 63K(measured from records)
- LULuxembourg≈1 in 578
- BEBelgium1 in 8.8K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 312 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 578 (inferred from the name graph)
≈26,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Luxembourg, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
zu mhd. smid/Schmied ‘Metallarbeiter’; zeigt t-Varianz in Schmit- (6 Typen/239 Belege).
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
How Schmit is read(measured from records)
Schmit is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English61%
‘smith, blacksmith’.
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
- French18%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Schmit in French.
- Spanish8.0%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Schmit in Spanish.
- German5.7%
zu mhd. smid/Schmied ‘Metallarbeiter’; zeigt t-Varianz in Schmit- (6 Typen/239 Belege).
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
zu 'Schmied'; seltene Schreibung, Platte zu Dentale: Plosive, mit -t-Schreibung.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Schmit 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈26,000 est. | ≈1 in 54K | — | Schmit | 8 |
| US United States | — | 5,274 | 1 in 63K | 5.3K | Schmit | 312 |
| FR France | — | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 24K | 336 | — | 6 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 172K | — | Schmit | 5 |
| BR Brazil | — | 1,512 | 1 in 140K | 1.5K | — | 2 |
| BE Belgium | — | 1,335 | 1 in 8.8K | 1.3K | Schmit | 39 |
| LU Luxembourg | #28 | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 578 | 6.9K | Schmit | 39 |
| JO Jordan | — | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Schmit | 3 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 42K | — | Schmit | 30 |
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; Luxembourg top-100 surnames (surnam.es); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
Schmit is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In bar, smith
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Thomas Schmitb. 1894LULuxembourgish association football player (1894-1944)
- Georges Schmitb. 1904LUluxembourgian sprinter
- Lucien A. Schmit Jr.b. 1928USAmerican engineer (1928–2018)
- Lydie Schmitb. 1939LULuxembourgish politician (1939-1988)
- Ady Schmitb. 1940LULuxembourgish footballer
- Tomas Schmitb. 1943DEGerman artist (1943–2006)
- Nicolas Schmitb. 1953LULuxembourg politician (born 1953)
- Randall Schmitb. 1955USAmerican Artist, primarily Painter and Collagist (born 1955)
- Pascal Schmitb. 1975DEGerman cinematographer
- Sophie Schmitb. 2000FRFrench film editor
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 31 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LU Luxembourg | Luxembourg top-100 surnames (surnam.es) | — | 6.9K | #1 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 5.3K | #6,438 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 5.3K | #6,231 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 5.1K | #6,234 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.5K | #6,302 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1.3K | #913 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 1.2K | #981 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 441 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 424 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 423 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 413 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 343 | — |
Reference works 4
- 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
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
- How do you pronounce Schmit?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈʃmɪt/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Schmit mean?
- Recorded meaning: zu mhd. smid/Schmied ‘Metallarbeiter’; zeigt t-Varianz in Schmit- (6 Typen/239 Belege).
- In which country does Schmit have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 26 thousand people named Schmit in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled schmit.
- How common is the name Schmit?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,274 people named Schmit in 2010, about 1 in 63 thousand residents.
- How common is Schmit compared with other names?
- In Luxembourg, Schmit is the 28th most common surname of 1,851 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Schmit?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/schmitThe 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, “Schmit” — the 28th most common surname in Luxembourg. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.