Smit

Smit is a Dutch occupational surname. It represents an archaic spelling of the Dutch word "smid" for "smith" (metal worker) and is the Dutch equivalent of the English surname Smith.[1]

This article is about the surname. For the Dutch company, see Smit International. For other uses, see SMIT (disambiguation).
Smit
Language(s)Dutch
Origin
Meaningsmith
Region of originNetherlands
Other names
Variant form(s)De Smet
Smeets
Smet
Smith
Smits

Frequency of occurrence in general populations

Information for surname frequency in the Netherlands is limited by the end of comprehensive census taking in the year 1971.[2] The most recent readily available information is based on the 1947 census, for which both raw census data and surname frequency data have been made available to the general public. In 1947 there were 29,783 recorded people with the surname Smit,[3] while the general census provides a figure of 9,519,000 as the 1947 population.[4] Working with this data the frequency of the Smit surname in the Netherlands in 1947 can be calculated to be ~0.313% or ~3,130 of every 1,000,000 people.[5] By comparison, the most common Dutch surname in the 1947 data was de Jong, which had a frequency of ~0.580%.[6][7]

An imperfect comparison can be made to primary English-speaking countries as of 1998 based on research by The National Trust. In 1998, the highest frequency was observed in New Zealand as 97.18 occurrences per million people, or ~1/30th the rate found in the Netherlands of 50 years before.[8] Among the nations examined in the National Trust study, relative frequencies for 1991 were: New Zealand > Australia ≅ Canada ≫ United States > Northern Ireland > Great Britain > Republic of Ireland.[8] The substantial difference between Canada and the United States indicated in this series is approximately 3.5 fold.[8]

People
Arts
  • Aernout Smit (1641–1710), Dutch painter
  • André Smit (1916–2001), Dutch musician
  • Anton Smit (b. 1945), Dutch screenwriter, television and film producer
  • Arie Smit (1916–2016), Dutch-born Indonesian painter
  • Bartho Smit (1924–1986), South African writer, poet, dramatist and director
  • Carola Smit (b. 1963), Dutch singer
  • Carolein Smit (b. 1960), Dutch ceramic art sculptor
  • Floortje Smit (b. 1983), Dutch singer
  • Gabriël Smit (1910–1981), Dutch poet and journalist
  • Ger Smit (1933–2012), Dutch voice actor
  • Gert Smit (1944–1998), South African singer known as "Gene Rockwell"
  • Guy Richards Smit (b. 1970), American performance artist
  • Howard Smit (1911–2009), American film make-up artist
  • Huub Smit (b. 1978), Dutch actor
  • Jan Smit (b. 1985), Dutch singer
  • Joseph Smit (1836–1929), Dutch zoological illustrator
  • Leo Smit (1900–1943), Dutch composer and pianist
  • Leo Smit (1921–1999), American composer
  • Lionel Smit (b. 1982), South African artist
  • Lisa Smit (b. 1993), Dutch actress
  • Louise Smit (b. 1940), South African children's writer
  • Marianne Smit (b. 1984), Dutch harpist
  • Mikie Smit (b. 1833), Dutch American writer[9]
  • Monique Smit (b. 1989), Dutch singer and television presenter
  • Peter Smit (b. 1952), Dutch children's writer and publicist
  • Pierre Jacques Smit (1863–1960), Dutch natural history illustrator in England
  • Sjoukje Smit (b. 1950), Dutch singer known as "Maggie McNeal"
  • Wisse Alfred Pierre Smit (1903–1986), Dutch poet and literary historian
Politics
  • Adalbert Smit (1897–1994), Dutch Esperantist and politician
  • Carry Pothuis-Smit (1872–1951), Dutch suffragist and SDAP politician
  • Els Veder-Smit (b. 1921), Dutch VVD politician
  • Jaap Smit (b. 1957), Dutch trade unionist and King's Commissioner
  • Joke Smit (1933–1981), Dutch feminist and politician
  • Michiel Smit (b. 1976), Dutch politician
  • Neelie Smit (b. 1941), Dutch politician
  • Nico Smit, Namibian politician
  • Nicolaas Smit (1832–1896), South African Boer general and politician
  • Paul Smit (b. 1953), Namibian politician and farmer
  • Robert Smit (1933–1977), South African economist and politician
Sports
Other

Compound surnames

Šmit
  • Jože Šmit (1922 –2004), Slovene poet, translator, editor and journalist
  • Vlado Šmit (b. 1980), Serbian footballer

Notes
  1. Citation: Schulze, 2008
  2. Citation: Life Courses in Context. Project Plan.
  3. Citation: Meertens Institute: Smit.
  4. Citation: Dutch Census Digitization 1795-1971 Project.
  5. (29,783/9,519,000)*100%; 1% = 1,000 occurrence per 1,000,000 people.
  6. Citation: Meertens Institute: Jong, de.
  7. (55,256/9,519,000)*100%
  8. Citation: Longley, et al., 2008.
  9. Smit, Mikie. "The Legend of the Forest". Henry Altemus Company.

References
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