Talk:Smit


 * Importance=mid based on frequency >0.3% in 1947 Netherlands. --User:Ceyockey ( talk to me ) 02:32, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

Collating frequency information
Collecting here prior to posting to main article.
 * United States, 1990.
 * Scotland, 1999/2000/2001. Not among the top 100; http://www.gro-scotland.gov.uk/files/01surnames_tablea2.pdf.
 * Scotland, 1995. Not among the top 100; http://www.gro-scotland.gov.uk/statistics/publications-and-data/popular-names/surnames.html
 * UK, 1881 and 1998.
 * 1998: rank 14,940; 6 occurrences per million people
 * 1881: rank 22,271; 1 occurrence per million people
 * this source states the origin as "Imported From Abroad; European; German"; also, the ethnic categorization is "German or Dutch"
 * —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ceyockey (talk • contribs) 12:05, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Comparative frequencies (1998): New Zealand > Australia ~ Canada (each >10x more frequent than in Great Britain) >> United States > Northern Ireland > Great Britain > Republic of Ireland --User:Ceyockey ( talk to me ) 01:22, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

Dstribution within Netherlands
See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Anthroponymy for discussion relating to this (experimental) section. --User:Ceyockey ( talk to me ) 03:12, 12 March 2008 (UTC)