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

The Schmit surname

In the 2000 U.S. Census, 5,053 people carried this name — #6,234 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 53,500 people counted.

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In France’s civil register

France’s register of deaths holds 1,661 people named Schmit.

109 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 79 départements, most often Moselle.

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Where they were born

Born outside France 109
Moselle 401
Paris 277
Meurthe-et-Moselle 163
Marne 99
Ardennes 63
Meuse 51
Yvelines 39
Aube 29

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

In Belgium’s population register

At least 875 people named Schmit live in Belgium.

Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Luxembourg Province.

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Where they live today

Luxembourg Province 511
Namur 113
Liège 67
Brussels-Capital 59
Walloon Brabant 46
Antwerp 37
Flemish Brabant 22
Hainaut 20

Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.

In Switzerland’s population statistics

39 people named Schmit live in Switzerland.

They live in 6 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.

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

Where they live today

Zurich 11
Geneva 8
Vaud 6
Fribourg 5
Ticino 5
Bern 4

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.

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