Smits

Smits is a Dutch surname that is considered a variant of the more common Smit surname.[1] The name is an old plural of Smid (blacksmith), though the plural in modern Dutch would be Smeden.

Smits
Language(s)Dutch
Origin
Meaningvariant of Smit, which derives from the Dutch word for metal worker
Region of originNetherlands
Other names
Variant form(s)Smit (by origin)
Smith (by meaning)
Smeets

Frequency of occurrence in general populations

Information for surname frequency in the Netherlands is limited by the end of comprehensive census taking in 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 15,151 recorded people with the surname Smits,[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 Smits surname in the Netherlands in 1947 can be calculated to be ~0.159% or ~1,590 of every 1,000,000 people,[5] which is ½ the frequency of the surname Smit, of which Smits is a variant.[1][6] In 2007 there were 23,205 carriers of this surname in The Netherlands and 3,888 in Belgium.[7]

Notable people sharing the Smits surname
Šmits
  • Anatolijs Šmits (1941–1998), Latvian chess master
  • Jānis Šmits (born 1968), Latvian politician
  • Pēteris Šmits (1869–1938), Latvian Orientalist and ethnographer
  • Rolands Šmits (born 1995), Latvian basketball player

See also

Notes
  1. Citation: Meertens Institute: Smit.
  2. Citation: Life Courses in Context. Project Plan.
  3. Citation: Meertens Institute: Smits.
  4. Citation: Dutch Census Digitization 1795-1971 Project.
  5. (15,151/9,519,000)*100%; 1% = 1,000 occurrence per 1,000,000 people.
  6. Smit frequency was 0.313% in 1947; see Smit for calculation.
  7. Citation: Nederlandse familienamenbank

References
  • Dutch Census Digitization 1795-1971 Project. "Hoofdstuk II. het totale bevolkingscijfer" (Scanned page image). Dutch Censuses 1795-1971 (in Dutch). Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences (through DANS Institute and in collaboration with NWO). p. 13. Retrieved 2008-03-15.
  • "Life Courses in Context. Project Plan. Section B: Census data". International Institute of Social History. 2007-06-28. Retrieved 2008-03-15.
  • Meertens Institute. "Smit". Nederlandse Familienamen Databank (in Dutch). Meertens Institute. Retrieved 2008-03-15.
  • Meertens Institute. "Smits". Nederlandse Familienamen Databank (in Dutch). Meertens Institute. Retrieved 2008-03-15.
  • Meertens Institute. "Smits". Nederlandse Familienamen Databank (in Dutch). Meertens Institute. Retrieved 2019-11-05.
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