Schmidt families are often Croats and they are mostly from Osijek , less frequently Germans (also from Osijek ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Osijek and Zagreb.
Prevalence
About 190 people with faimily name Schmidt live in Croatia today, in 110 households. There were 70 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number more than doubled. They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 22 cities and 26 other places, mostly in Zagreb (50), Osijek (40), Antunovac in Osijek area (10), Split (<10), and in Pula (<10).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over a hundred times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.