When Dorothy May Schmitt was born on 2 May 1917, her father, Adam J Schmitt, was 29 and her mother, Hazel Campbell, was 28. She died on 8 May 1917, in Aurora, Kane, Illinois, United States, at the age of 0.
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Some characteristic forenames: German Kurt, Erwin, Hans, Dieter, Gerhard, Alfons, Bernhard, Franz, Heinz, Helmut, Otto, Bernd.
South German: variant of Schmidt ‘blacksmith’. This form of the surname is also common in France (mainly Alsace and Lorraine).
Germanized form of Slovenian and Croatian Šmit, Czech Šmít, surnames of German origin (compare above, see Smit 3).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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