Schmied surname: U.S. census count, rank and records | FamilyCrests

The Schmied surname

In the 2000 U.S. Census, 531 people carried this name — #39,052 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 500,000 people counted.

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In Switzerland’s population statistics

1,118 people named Schmied live in Switzerland.

They live in 21 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Bern.

Where it concentrates, on the map

Where they live today

Bern 401
Zurich 136
Vaud 82
Aargau 76
Fribourg 68
St. Gallen 43
Schwyz 42
Thurgau 36

Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.

In France’s civil register

France’s register of deaths holds 57 people named Schmied.

23 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 16 départements, most often Oise.

Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.

Where they were born

Born outside France 23
Oise 7
Paris 5
Bas-Rhin 5
Somme 3
Loire 2
Essonne 2
Hauts-de-Seine 1
Seine-Saint-Denis 1

Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.

When the index is not enough

This page says where Schmied is.
A volume says what happened to it.

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