Šmer families are Croats and they are mostly from Ludbreg area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Ludbreg area and in Ludbreg. In Priles in Ludbreg area every tenth inhabitant had the family name Šmer.
Prevalence
About 90 people with faimily name Šmer live in Croatia today, in 40 households. There were 100 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent. They are located in 7 Croatian counties, in 9 cities and 13 other places, mostly in Ludbreg (10), Priles in Ludbreg area (10), Rijeka (<10), Podgorje (<10), and in Palesnik in Garesnica area (<10).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.