Keers
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Keers is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United Kingdom than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Durham. see Keirs .
- NLNetherlands1 in 148K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 230K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 280Kfew records
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.
- United Kingdom (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 104 (measured from records)
- 1 in 148K (inferred from the name graph)
≈300 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Main GB Location (1881): Durham. see Keirs .
Cited for this meaning 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Where the surname Keers is found
(measured from records)Keers 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 228K | — | Keers | 94 |
| US United States | 163 | 1 in 2M | 181 | Keers | 104 |
| NL Netherlands | 117 | 1 in 148K | 117 | Keers | 18 |
| AU Australia | ≈98 est. | ≈1 in 277K | — | Keers | 40 |
| CA Canada | ≈29 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | — | Keers | 15 |
| IE Ireland | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 927K | — | Keers | 5 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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)- Wolter Keersb. 1923NLDutch teacher (1923–1985)
- Jim Keersb. 1931GBEnglish footballer (1931-2020)
- Jeroen Keersb. 1955NLDutch voice actor
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)9 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Keers mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): Durham. see Keirs . Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Keers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 304 people named Keers in the United Kingdom, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled keers. After it come United States, Netherlands, Australia and Canada; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Keers most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Keers is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 148 thousand people — even though United Kingdom holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Keers?
- In the United States, the national register counted 163 people named Keers in 2010, about 1 in 2.0 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/keersThe 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), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Keers”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.