Shmidt
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ʃmɪt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Shmidt is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 2.3Kas Schmidt(measured from records)
- RURussia≈1 in 8.5Kas Шмидт
- KZKazakhstan1 in 78Kas Шмидт
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 Shmidt 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
- 154 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 122K (inferred from the name graph)
147,034 named Schmidt, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Uzbekistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Шмидт in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, UZ Uzbekistan and Schmidt in US United States, 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 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Shmidt 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 | 86 |
| BR Brazil | — | 26,228as Schmidt | 1 in 8.1K | 26K | — | — |
| RU Russia | — | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.5K | — | Шмидт | 154 |
| DK Denmark | — | 15,691as Schmidt | 1 in 374 | 16K | — | — |
| AR Argentina | — | 11,727as Schmidt | 1 in 3.9K | 12K | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | — | 5,684as Schmidt | 1 in 1.5K | 5.7K | Schmidt | 7 |
| NO Norway | — | 1,788as Schmidt | 1 in 3.1K | 1.8K | — | 2 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | — | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 122K | — | Шмидт | 6 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | #167 | 245as Шмидт | 1 in 78K | 1.2K | Шмидт | 41 |
| GL Greenland | — | 211as Schmidt | 1 in 273 | 211 | — | 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; 2021 National Population Census — popular surnames of Kazakhs, by region of residence; 2021 National Population Census — popular surnames of Russians, by region of residence; 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); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Statistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Artem Shmidtb. 2004USAmerican cyclist
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 20 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 412 | #20,247 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 300 | #70,358 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 294 | #67,126 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 278 | #66,476 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 65 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 6 | #89,778 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 4 | #69,601 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- How do you pronounce Shmidt?
- A machine transcription gives /ʃmɪt/ (IPA) for Ukrainian.
- In which country does Shmidt 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 Shmidt?
- In the United States, the national register counted 147,034 people named Schmidt in 2010, about 1 in 2.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Shmidt compared with other names?
- In Kazakhstan, Shmidt is the 167th most common surname of 962,639 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Shmidt?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/shmidtThe 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, “Shmidt” — the 167th most common surname in Kazakhstan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.