Smeets

Smeets
Origin
Language	Limburgish
Meaning	smith's
Region of origin	Limburg (encompassing Limburg (Belgium) and Limburg (Netherlands))
Other names
Variant forms	Smit; Smits

Smeets is a Limburgian surname (or more broadly, Dutch surname) meaning smith (metal worker). The surname hails specifically from the Limburg region spanning parts of the Southern Netherlands and Eastern Belgium.^[1]^[2]

People bearing the Smeets surname

Axel Smeets (b. 1974), Belgian football defender and manager
Bryan Smeets (b. 1992), Dutch football midfielder
Felix Smeets (1904–1961), Dutch football striker
Hubert Smeets (nl; uk) (b. 1958), Dutchjournalist and historian
Ionica Smeets (b. 1979), Dutch mathematician, science journalist, and TV presenter
Jan Smeets (b. 1985), Dutch chess player
Jorg Smeets (b. 1970), Dutch football midfielder
Jorrit Smeets (b. 1995), Dutch football midfielder
Joseph Smeets (b. 1959), Belgian racing cyclist
Lucian Smeets (fl. 1900), Belgian stamp forger
Mart Smeets (b. 1947), Dutch radio and television personality, writer and columnist
Martine Smeets (b. 1990), Dutch handball player
Minke Smeets (b. 1979), Dutch field hockey player, wife of Tjerk
Pauline Smeets (b. 1959), Dutch Labour Party politician
Robert Smeets (b. 1985), Australian tennis player
Theo Smeets (de) (b. 1964), Dutch jeweler
Tjerk Smeets (b. 1980), Dutch baseball player, son of Mart Smeets, husband of Minke

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v t e Surnames associated with the occupation of smith
Celtic	Goff Goffe Gow Gowan Gowans Le Goff Mac a' Ghobhainn MacGavin / McGavin MacGowan / McGowan
Germanic	Brenneis De Smedt De Smet Eisen Eisler Eisner Kleinschmidt Klier Klingbeil Klinkhamer Klinkhammer Nagel Pinkert Schmid Schmidt Schmied Schmiedel Schmiedl Schmieden Schmitt Schmitz Schmitzer Smed Smeets Smet Smets Smidt Smit (Smith, list) Smithe Smither Smithers Smithies Smithson Smits Smyth Smythe Szmidt Šmíd
Romance	Fabbri Faber Fabre Fabri Faure Favre Feaver Ferrara Ferrari Ferraris Ferraro Ferré Ferreira Ferrer Ferrero Ferreiro Ferretti Ferreyra Ferrier Ferriero Fieraru Fierarul Herrera Herrero Lefébure Lefebvre Lefèvre
Semitic	Haddad Hadodo Al-Haddad El-Haddad
Slavic	Covaci Coval Covali Covaliov Kavalyow Kovač Kováč Kovach Kovačević Kovačevič Kovačovič Kovačev Kovachev Kovačec Kovačevski Kovačić Kovačič Kovačik¹ Kováčik¹ Kovack Kovács Koval Kovalchuk Kovalenko Kovalevich Kovalevsky Kovalic¹ Kovalik¹ Kovalkov Kovals Kovalsky Kovalyov Kovalyuk Kovář Kovařík¹ Kowal Kowalik¹ Kowalczyk Kowalczuk Kowalewicz Kowalewski Kowalski Kuznets Kuznetsov Kuźniar
Other	Armenian: Darbinyan Baltic Kalējs Kalvaitis (Kalwejt, Kallweit, etc.) Kavaliauskas Šmits Finnic Sepp Seppä Seppänen Seppälä Seppäläinen Indic: Lohar Kartvelian Mchedlidze Mchedlishvili Turkic Demirci Demircioğlu
From "spark" rel. to occ. 'smith'	Funk Funke Vonck Vonk
¹ "Kovalik" etc. may be derived from the name of the bird of genus of nuthatches

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