Smit

3,966 people in the United States were counted with the surname Smit in the 2020 census, making it the 8,012th most common in the country. That is about one person in 75,400.

By the numbers

People: 3,966
Rank: 8,012th
How common: 1 in 75,400
Per 100,000: 1.3

Where the name comes from

Origin Dutch

Borrowed from Dutch Smid, from smid (“smith”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 77.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 8.6%
Black, not Hispanic 8.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Smit

Kodi Smit-McPhee (born 1996)Australian actor
Jan Smit (born 1985)Dutch singer and TV presenter
Kick Smit (1911–1974)Dutch footballer and manager
Joseph Smit (1836–1929)Dutch natural history illustrator
Gretha Smit (born 1976)Dutch speed skater
John Smit (born 1978)South African rugby union footballer
Kees Smit (born 2006)Dutch footballer
Julia Smit (born 1987)American swimmer, Olympic silver medalist, world record-holder

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

Surnames like Smit

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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.