Schmidt

Borrowed from German Schmidt (“smith”). Doublet of Smid and Smith.

• IPA^(key): /ʃmɪt/
• Rhymes: -ɪt

Schmidt (plural Schmidts)

1. A surname from German [in turn originating as an occupation].
   • 2025 April 24, Andrew Freedman, “Trump administration cancels top NASA climate lab’s lease at Columbia University”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     “The work continues, the data, the products, the science will continue because science is done by people not by buildings,” NASA GISS director Gavin Schmidt told CNN.

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Schmidt is the 185^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 147,034 individuals. Schmidt is most common among White (95.2%) individuals.

Schmidt (plural Schmidts)

1. Ellipsis of Schmidt telescope.

From German Schmidt, often as a Germanization of the Danish Smed.

Schmidt

1. a surname

• [2] Danmarks Statistik: 15 849 persons with the surname Schmidt (compared to 863 named Smed) living in Denmark on January 1st, 2011. Accessed on 18 October 2011.

• IPA^(key): /ʃmit/

Schmidt ?

1. a surname from German

• Schmid, Schmidl, Schmidts, Schmied, Schmiedel, Schmieder, Schmitt, Schmitz

• IPA^(key): /ʃmɪt/

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Schmidt m or f (proper noun, strong, genitive Schmidts or (with an article) Schmidt, plural Schmidts or Schmidt)

1. a common surname originating as an occupation, equivalent to English Smith

Schmidt m (strong, genitive Schmiedes or Schmidts or Schmidtes, plural Schmiede or Schmidte)

1. archaic form of Schmied (“smith”)

• The stem Schmidt generally occurred only in the uninflected form, while inflected forms were built from the stem Schmied- (also spelt Schmid-). However, forms with generalization of the uninflected stem are also attestable. In contemporary German, conversely, the inflected stem has been generalized. (Alternation is still preserved in Dutch smid, plural smeden.)

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• IPA^(key): [ˈʃmitː] (phonetic respelling: Smitt)
• Hyphenation: Schmidt
• Rhymes: -itː

Schmidt

1. a surname

Unadapted borrowing from German Schmidt.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʂmit/
• Rhymes: -it
• Syllabification: Schmidt
• Homophones: Szmid, Szmidt, Szmit

Schmidt m pers

1. a male surname from German

Schmidt f (indeclinable)

1. a female surname from German

• Schmidt in Polish dictionaries at PWN
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