as a Last Name
- 2,324
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Schmelzer
Meaning & Origins
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for a smelter, from an agent derivative of Middle High German smelzen, German schmelzen ‘to smelt metal’.
| 13,143rd in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 2,324
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Iowa
- has the most people named Schmelzer per capita
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