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

The Schmuck surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 1,646 people carried this name — #17,202 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 178,600 people counted. That is up 7% from 1,540 in 2000.

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In France’s civil register

France’s register of deaths holds 271 people named Schmuck.

18 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 26 départements, most often Haut-Rhin.

Where it concentrates, on the map

Where they were born

Born outside France 18
Haut-Rhin 83
Bas-Rhin 77
Moselle 37
Maine-et-Loire 11
Paris 9
Var 5
Rhône 4
Somme 4

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

In Switzerland’s population statistics

52 people named Schmuck live in Switzerland.

They live in 7 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in St. Gallen.

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

Where they live today

St. Gallen 16
Zurich 10
Valais 8
Aargau 5
Lucerne 5
Bern 4
Graubünden 4

Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.

In Argentina’s national register

At least 24 people named Schmuck live in Argentina.

RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Santa Fe.

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

Where they live today

Santa Fe 24

RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.

In the Nordic population registers

21 people named Schmuck is counted in Sweden.

Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.

Counted, by country

Sweden (2022) 21

Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).

Who carried it

People named Schmuck,
with a public archive behind them.

  • Vincentius Schmuck
    Vincentius Schmuck 1565–1628 · writer
  • Christian Schmuck d. 1624
  • Michael Schmuck 1535–1606 · printer
  • Wilhelm Schmuck 1575–1634 · jurist
  • Catharina Schmuck 1621–1664
  • Joachim Josef Ignaz Leonhard Schmuck 1810–1897 · pharmacist

Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.

When the index is not enough

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

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