The Succesful Smiths

No other profession has made their stamp on the family names like the smiths. It seems like working iron was an activity that immediately stuck when it comes to names. In the Anglo-Saxon world, only the Jones’s can compete with the Smith's. Every other German is named Schmidt. This name is derived from the word “schmeid”, meaning smith. The most common family name in Russia, Kuznets, means smith. There are certain hazards in the transformation of Russian letters to Latin ones and I hope that I got it right.
For some reason, the smiths were not that successful in the Latin nations. Spanish “Herrero’s” and French “Forgeron’s” do exist but are not exactly household names. The most well known is probably the singer Christina Forgeron. The Italian smiths, the "Ferrari's", has becomefamous through the brand name of car.
(This post was slightly modified on 20 July 2008)