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.
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 mapWhere they were born
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
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
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
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.
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Vincentius Schmuck 1565–1628 · writer -
Christian Schmuck d. 1624
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Michael Schmuck 1535–1606 · printer
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Wilhelm Schmuck 1575–1634 · jurist
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Catharina Schmuck 1621–1664
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Joachim Josef Ignaz Leonhard Schmuck 1810–1897 · pharmacist
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Schmuck.
- Schmit 5,274 · U.S. census
- Schmith 303 · U.S. census
- Schmitt 36,043 · U.S. census
- Schmitter 551 · U.S. census
- Schmitz 23,931 · U.S. census
- Schmoll 1,240 · U.S. census
- Schmutz 764 · U.S. census
- Schnabel 3,110 · U.S. census
- Schnebelen 145 · U.S. census
- Schnee 946 · U.S. census
- Schneeberger 910 · U.S. census
- Schneider 101,290 · U.S. census
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