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. "Search names from 1990 Census" (Database search result). United States Census Bureau. 2000-09-07. Retrieved 2008-03-05. NAME (last):Smit ; %FREQ:0.001 ; CUMM FREQ:73.627 ; RANK:12,725 (reformatted quote)
• 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. Longley, Paul. "Smit". SPLINT Project, University College London. The National Trust. Retrieved 2008-03-05. {{cite web}}: External link in |work= (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  • 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#Skirting the boundaries of original research for discussion relating to this (experimental) section. --User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 03:12, 12 March 2008 (UTC)