Śmit

surname · Latin script

Śmit is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From smid (“smith”).

rarermore common
  • NLNetherlands1 in 409(measured from records)
  • SISlovenia1 in 6.5K
  • HRCroatia1 in 6.7K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Netherlands (measured from records)

42,275 people, 2007

Sources
26 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 409 (inferred from the name graph)

Netherlands

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Smit in NL Netherlands, US United States.

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)

From smid (“smith”).

Sources 2

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wiktionary

Where in the world(measured from records)

Śmit 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.

Where Śmit is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NL Netherlands42,2751 in 40942KSmit18
US United States3,1641 in 105K4KSmit15
HR Croatia6331 in 6.7K633——
AR Argentina6251 in 73K625——
BE Belgium4351 in 27K453——
SI Slovenia3241 in 6.5K324—1
NO Norway1901 in 29K190——

42,275 people counted by CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007), 2007. 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: CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statbel — Noms de famille (family names); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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 3 sources across 1 country.

Reference works 1

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 Śmit mean, and where does it come from?
From smid (“smith”). Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Wiktionary.
In which country does Śmit have the most bearers?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 42 thousand people named Śmit, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled smit.
Where is Śmit most common?
Śmit is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 409 people carrying it.
How common is the name Śmit?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted 42,275 people named Śmit in 2007, about 1 in 409 residents.

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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, “Śmit”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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