--- title: "Smud" url: https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/name-variants/smud/ lang: en work: "The Smud Family: A Jewish Family History from Ludza, Latvia to Entre Ríos, Argentina" author: "Mateo Smud" licence: CC0-1.0 summary: "The Argentine form of the surname. It first appears in the Buenos Aires immigration register of December 1904, written “Smud or Smod”, and it is the form the family kept from then on." --- # Smud **Documented.** The Argentine form of the surname. It first appears in the Buenos Aires immigration register of December 1904, written “Smud or Smod”, and it is the form the family kept from then on. ## First documented appearance 1904 — «Smud or Smod» — The 1904 immigration register — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/sources/#registro-inmigracion-1904 Other spellings: Smod, Smut ## Where it appears In the immigration register of the port of Buenos Aires, among the third-class passengers who arrived in December 1904, there is Malke or Molke Noel de Smud, Russian national, aged 30, with Alex aged 7, Meyer aged 5 and Eide aged 6 months. The surname was written “Smud or Smod”. It is the first time the surname appears on an Argentine document, already in the form it would keep. Malke had arrived on 23 December with her three children: Alejandro, Marcos and Aida. Felix came later, in mid-1905. ## The bridge to the Russian record Marcos's gravestone in Paraná preserves his Hebrew name —Meir Smud— and his father's, Folke. It matches, name for name, the 1899 Mariupol record that lists him as Meyer Zhmud, son of Falik. That match is what allows us to say that the Smud of Entre Ríos and the Zhmud of Mariupol are the same family. ## Smod and Smut Smod is the second form on the same 1904 line. Smut is another recorded form; this research does not date it in any document. ## Same surname, other families This is the form where confusion is easiest. It is explained in other Smud families and in the surname origin page. ## What this form does not prove Smud does not identify a family. In Argentina there are families named Smud, for example in the city of Buenos Aires, that as far as is known have no connection to this one and no Jewish or Samogitian origin: the Croatian Smuđ and the Polish Smuda or Żmuda may have ended up written the same way. Bearing this surname does not prove descent from Ludza, Jewish ancestry, or kinship with anyone in this tree. ## People under this form - Malke Noel — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/malke-noel/ - Alejandro Smud — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/alejandro-smud/ - Marcos Smud — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/marcos-smud/ - Aida Smud — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/aida-smud/ - Felix Smud — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/felix-smud/ ## Related variants - Zhmud — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/name-variants/zhmud/ - Zmud — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/name-variants/zmud/ See also: https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/other-smud/ · https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/surname-origin/ --- The Smud Family · genealogical research by Mateo Smud, published under CC0 1.0. Machine index: https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/llms.txt