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
The last name Smeets is carried by more people in The Netherlands than any other country or territory. It may be rendered as a variant:. Click here for further possible spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Smeets? popularity and diffusion
It is the 26,488th most commonly used last name worldwide, borne by approximately 1 in 358,604 people. This last name occurs predominantly in Europe, where 96 percent of Smeets live; 96 percent live in Western Europe and 90 percent live in Germanic Europe. It is also the 3,159,357th most frequent forename at a global level, borne by 13 people.
The last name is most commonly used in The Netherlands, where it is borne by 12,985 people, or 1 in 1,301. In The Netherlands it is most numerous in: Limburg, where 63 percent are found, North Brabant, where 14 percent are found and South Holland, where 6 percent are found. Barring The Netherlands this surname exists in 53 countries. It also occurs in Belgium, where 26 percent are found and Germany, where 5 percent are found.
Smeets Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The occurrence of Smeets has changed over time. In The United States the share of the population with the last name 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 national average, with 87.5% being registered to vote for the political 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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