Smets Surname
Approximately 16,216 people bear this surname
Smets Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Belgium | 13,292 | 1:865 | 21 |
| Netherlands | 1,156 | 1:14,608 | 2,191 |
| Germany | 629 | 1:127,990 | 15,614 |
| France | 552 | 1:120,331 | 18,187 |
| United States | 293 | 1:1,237,061 | 87,515 |
| England | 45 | 1:1,238,179 | 56,985 |
| Spain | 42 | 1:1,113,144 | 39,565 |
| Switzerland | 35 | 1:234,655 | 19,741 |
| Canada | 35 | 1:1,052,731 | 78,176 |
| Australia | 23 | 1:1,173,726 | 64,589 |
| Thailand | 19 | 1:3,717,808 | 320,775 |
| Brazil | 11 | 1:19,461,303 | 329,560 |
| South Africa | 11 | 1:4,925,246 | 143,631 |
| New Zealand | 7 | 1:646,903 | 40,014 |
| Ukraine | 7 | 1:6,503,242 | 257,739 |
| Denmark | 5 | 1:1,128,943 | 52,970 |
| Sweden | 5 | 1:1,969,351 | 134,077 |
| Scotland | 3 | 1:1,784,606 | 41,943 |
| Russia | 3 | 1:48,041,019 | 639,186 |
| Philippines | 3 | 1:33,746,074 | 302,898 |
| Luxembourg | 3 | 1:193,514 | 7,046 |
| Monaco | 3 | 1:12,355 | 2,088 |
| Ecuador | 3 | 1:5,301,949 | 30,184 |
| Northern Ireland | 2 | 1:922,518 | 18,701 |
| Ireland | 2 | 1:2,354,470 | 19,715 |
| Mexico | 2 | 1:62,063,102 | 83,384 |
| Austria | 2 | 1:4,257,718 | 99,224 |
| United Arab Emirates | 2 | 1:4,581,136 | 93,443 |
| Singapore | 1 | 1:5,507,703 | 47,049 |
| Venezuela | 1 | 1:30,204,077 | 85,459 |
| Belarus | 1 | 1:9,501,059 | 159,228 |
| Transnistria | 1 | 1:474,699 | 17,893 |
| Bulgaria | 1 | 1:6,978,905 | 86,260 |
| Tanzania | 1 | 1:52,941,613 | 123,716 |
| Taiwan | 1 | 1:23,444,746 | 93,622 |
| Cambodia | 1 | 1:15,487,146 | 14,824 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| Dominican Republic | 1 | 1:10,432,932 | 36,508 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Faroe Islands | 1 | 1:48,998 | 2,049 |
| Hungary | 1 | 1:9,816,277 | 73,288 |
| Portugal | 1 | 1:10,418,241 | 25,048 |
| Iraq | 1 | 1:35,021,654 | 31,813 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
| Mozambique | 1 | 1:27,261,569 | 7,432 |
| Jersey | 1 | 1:99,202 | 6,620 |
| Mali | 1 | 1:16,969,035 | 4,067 |
| Liechtenstein | 1 | 1:38,378 | 1,726 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 9 | 1:5,579,854 | 232,921 |
Smets (16) may also be a first name.
Smets Demographics
Average Smets Salary in
United States
$48,885 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Smets Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Smets Come From? nationality or country of origin
Smets (Russian: Смець) is more commonly found in Belgium than any other country or territory. It may be rendered as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Smets? popularity and diffusion
It is the 32,786th most commonly used family name world-wide, held by approximately 1 in 449,405 people. This last name is predominantly found in Europe, where 97 percent of Smets are found; 97 percent are found in Western Europe and 77 percent are found in Germanic Europe. Smets is also the 2,786,762nd most frequently used forename world-wide. It is borne by 16 people.
This surname is most prevalent in Belgium, where it is held by 13,292 people, or 1 in 865. In Belgium Smets is most frequent in: Flemish Region, where 80 percent live, Walloon Region, where 13 percent live and Brussels Capital Region, where 7 percent live. Outside of Belgium this surname occurs in 48 countries. It is also common in The Netherlands, where 7 percent live and Germany, where 4 percent live.
Smets Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The frequency of Smets has changed over time. In The United States the number of people who held the Smets surname grew 3,256 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Smets Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those holding the Smets surname are 19.9% more likely to be registered Republicans than The US average, with 66.67% being registered to vote for the party.
The amount Smets earn in different countries varies marginally. In United States they earn 13.29% more than the national average, earning $48,885 USD per year and in Canada they earn 8.78% more than the national average, earning $54,043 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Smets Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Smets in the Russian language | ||
| Смець | smec | - |
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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 Smets
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