Smeets Surname
Approximately 20,322 people bear this surname
Smeets Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 12,985 | 1:1,301 | 69 |
| Belgium | 5,286 | 1:2,175 | 168 |
| Germany | 1,075 | 1:74,889 | 9,472 |
| United States | 255 | 1:1,421,408 | 97,813 |
| Canada | 161 | 1:228,855 | 21,956 |
| Australia | 105 | 1:257,102 | 23,526 |
| France | 99 | 1:670,937 | 86,003 |
| Brazil | 56 | 1:3,822,756 | 105,432 |
| Thailand | 39 | 1:1,811,240 | 225,763 |
| England | 38 | 1:1,466,265 | 63,675 |
| New Zealand | 31 | 1:146,075 | 17,002 |
| Switzerland | 29 | 1:283,204 | 22,806 |
| Spain | 27 | 1:1,731,557 | 49,506 |
| Sweden | 18 | 1:547,042 | 39,827 |
| South Africa | 17 | 1:3,186,924 | 115,449 |
| Singapore | 17 | 1:323,983 | 13,856 |
| Denmark | 8 | 1:705,589 | 39,626 |
| Finland | 7 | 1:785,243 | 38,644 |
| Italy | 5 | 1:12,231,338 | 126,430 |
| Portugal | 4 | 1:2,604,560 | 16,079 |
| Suriname | 4 | 1:138,154 | 7,029 |
| Luxembourg | 4 | 1:145,136 | 6,519 |
| Japan | 4 | 1:31,961,073 | 53,820 |
| Curaçao | 4 | 1:39,312 | 638 |
| Dominican Republic | 4 | 1:2,608,233 | 20,941 |
| Philippines | 3 | 1:33,746,074 | 302,898 |
| Norway | 3 | 1:1,714,095 | 79,528 |
| Turkey | 3 | 1:25,940,474 | 162,557 |
| Monaco | 3 | 1:12,355 | 2,088 |
| China | 2 | 1:683,660,783 | 30,601 |
| Czechia | 2 | 1:5,316,734 | 169,646 |
| Greece | 2 | 1:5,539,895 | 129,142 |
| United Arab Emirates | 1 | 1:9,162,273 | 135,437 |
| Argentina | 1 | 1:42,743,414 | 282,706 |
| Yemen | 1 | 1:26,425,294 | 55,147 |
| Zimbabwe | 1 | 1:15,438,240 | 133,260 |
| Tunisia | 1 | 1:610,626 | 30,336 |
| Aruba | 1 | 1:103,477 | 2,586 |
| Austria | 1 | 1:8,515,435 | 118,036 |
| Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
| Chile | 1 | 1:17,616,474 | 93,597 |
| Scotland | 1 | 1:5,353,817 | 63,002 |
| Colombia | 1 | 1:47,774,072 | 44,230 |
| Slovakia | 1 | 1:5,336,450 | 140,422 |
| Hong Kong | 1 | 1:7,335,483 | 16,643 |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | 1:30,855,817 | 63,028 |
| Puerto Rico | 1 | 1:3,550,139 | 9,109 |
| Ecuador | 1 | 1:15,905,846 | 50,210 |
| Malta | 1 | 1:430,272 | 3,380 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Gambia | 1 | 1:1,923,451 | 1,043 |
| Ireland | 1 | 1:4,708,939 | 29,543 |
| Indonesia | 1 | 1:132,249,194 | 811,426 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 8 | 1:6,277,336 | 262,771 |
Smeets (13) may also be a first name.
Smeets Demographics
Average Male Smeets Height
176 cm
Sample is predominantly from Anglosphere countries
Smeets Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Smeets Come From? nationality or country of origin
Smeets is found in The Netherlands more than any other country/territory. It may be rendered as:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Smeets? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 26,488th most numerous last name world-wide It is held by around 1 in 358,604 people. Smeets is primarily found in Europe, where 96 percent of Smeets reside; 96 percent reside in Western Europe and 90 percent reside in Germanic Europe. It is also the 3,159,357th most commonly used first name throughout the world, held by 13 people.
The last name Smeets is most frequent in The Netherlands, where it is borne by 12,985 people, or 1 in 1,301. In The Netherlands Smeets is most prevalent in: Limburg, where 63 percent reside, North Brabant, where 14 percent reside and South Holland, where 6 percent reside. Apart from The Netherlands Smeets occurs in 53 countries. It is also common in Belgium, where 26 percent reside and Germany, where 5 percent reside.
Smeets Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The frequency of Smeets has changed over time. In The United States the share of the population with the surname expanded 3,188 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Smeets Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those bearing the Smeets surname are 40.73% more likely to be registered Republicans than The US average, with 87.5% being registered to vote for the party.
The amount Smeets earn in different countries varies greatly. In South Africa they earn 73.24% less than the national average, earning R 63,600 per year; in United States they earn 4.88% less than the national average, earning $41,043 USD per year and in Canada they earn 4.39% more than the national average, earning $51,866 CAD per year.
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Smeets
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