Schmidt

Schmidt is the 193rd most common surname in the United States, shared by 142,290 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 2,101.

By the numbers

People: 142,290
Rank: 193rd
How common: 1 in 2,101
Per 100,000: 47.6

Where the name comes from

Origin German, from an occupational name

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Schmidt described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 92.3%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
Black, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Schmidt

Helmut Schmidt (1918–2015)Chancellor of West Germany
Brian Schmidt (born 1967)American-born Australian astrophysicist
Eric Schmidt (born 1955)software engineer, businessman, former Google CEO
Otto Schmidt (1891–1956)Russian geophysicist and polar explorer of Baltic German origin
Daniel Schmidt (born 1992)Japanese association football player
Kendall Schmidt (born 1990)American musician, singer, songwriter and actor
Annie M.G. Schmidt (1911–1995)Dutch writer
Oscar Schmidt (1958–2026)Brazilian basketball player

People named Schmidt with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Schmidt

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.