Descamps
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Descamps is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- BEBelgium1 in 2.9K(measured from records)
- FRFrance≈1 in 6.1K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 156K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 289 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈11,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Descamps counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #321 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.1K | 1.6K | Descamps | 289 |
| BE Belgium | #168 | 3,999 | 1 in 2.9K | 4K | Descamps | 104 |
| US United States | — | 221 | 1 in 1.5M | 240 | Descamps | 117 |
| ES Spain | — | 189 | 1 in 265K | 189 | Descamps | 33 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 790K | — | Descamps | 29 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 54 | 1 in 156K | 54 | Descamps | 16 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 351K | listed | — | 2 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); the ee-siseministeerium-registry register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Jean-Baptiste Descampsb. 1714FRFlemish art historian (1714-1791)
- Guillaume Descampsb. 1779FRpainter and engraver (1779-1858)
- Edouard Descampsb. 1847BEBelgian judge and politician (1847-1933)
- Jean-Jacques Descampsb. 1935FRFrench politician
- Béatrice Descampsb. 1951FRFrench politician (1951-)
- Patrick Descampsb. 1956BEBelgian actor
- Luc Descampsb. 1962BEBelgian writer
- Nathalie Descampsb. 1983BEbadminton player
- Jean-Mathieu Descampsb. 1983FRfootballer
- Rémy Descampsb. 1996FRFrench footballer (born 1996)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 23 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EE Estonia | Siseministeerium — population register name list 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Descamps have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 11 thousand people named Descamps in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled descamps.
- Where is Descamps most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Descamps is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 2.9 thousand people — even though France holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Descamps?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 3,999 people named Descamps in 2008, about 1 in 2.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Descamps compared with other names?
- In France, Descamps is the 321st most common surname of 1,200,812 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Descamps?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/descampsThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Descamps” — the 321st most common surname in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.