Schmitt surname meaning

Schmitt is a South German occupational surname, a regional spelling of Schmidt, meaning “blacksmith” or metalworker. It belongs to the same trade-name family as Schmid and Schmitz and is also common in Alsace and Lorraine. Schmidt already appears earlier in this catalog; Schmitt is simply the preferred written form in some southern German and Franco-German communities. English Smith is the translational cousin, not an identical surname stream. DAFN also notes Slavic-looking Šmit forms Germanized as Schmitt. Occupation is the clear type, and the smith meaning is high confidence.