Smit — boys' name
48 babies named Smit in U.S. Social Security records since 1995, with the highest year being 2000. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
63% of everyone ever named Smit was born in this single decade.
8 babies were named Smit in 2000 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Smit
The Social Security Administration has registered 48 babies named Smit between 1995 and 2017, spanning 23 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Smit currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2017. The name reached its historical peak in 2000, when 8 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Smit performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 30 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Smit shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.
No etymological entry is currently available for Smit in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 48 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Smit at a glance
Last recorded 2017Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Smit popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2017–1995
- Peak year (2000)
- 8
- Annual births at peak — across 23 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2017.
48 total births across 23 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2000 with 8 births in a single year.
Smit by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 30 births that decade — 63% of Smit's all-time total
Smit decade highlights
- Peak decade 30 births
- Runner-up 12 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Smit's strongest decade
30 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 63% of all-time use.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1995–2017 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.