Schmitt

Schmitt is the 988th most common surname in the United States, shared by 34,747 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 8,602.

By the numbers

People: 34,747
Rank: 988th
How common: 1 in 8,602
Per 100,000: 11.6

Where the name comes from

Origin German

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 92.9%
Hispanic or Latino 3.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
Black, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Schmitt

Carl Schmitt (1888–1985)German jurist, political theorist and professor of law
Pál Schmitt (born 1942)President of Hungary from 2010 to 2012
Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt (born 1960)French-Belgian writer
Harrison Schmitt (born 1935)Astronaut, geologist, politician, 12th man to walk on the moon (Apollo 17)
Martin Schmitt (born 1978)German former ski jumper
Allison Schmitt (born 1990)American swimmer, Olympic gold medalist, world champion, world record-holder
Florent Schmitt (1870–1958)French composer
Eric Schmitt (born 1975)American politician and lawyer

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

Surnames like Schmitt

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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.