Berchem
loc · Latin script
Meaning: Toponymic surname from a place name; bearer count 223
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Berchem is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Belgium.
- BEBelgium
- LULuxembourg
- NLNetherlands
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Belgium (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 120 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Toponymic surname from a place name; bearer count 223.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
Where in the world(measured from records)
Berchem counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | — | 37 | Berchem | 10 |
| US United States | — | 256 | Berchem | 120 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 13 | Berchem | 7 |
| LU Luxembourg | — | — | Berchem | 8 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 28 | — | 11 |
| FR France | — | 5 | — | 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: Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Berchem is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, toponymic surname from a settlement name; 223 tokens.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
In German, ON. Duisburg, Luxemburg; also Bergheim, Bergham
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Jacquet de Berchemb. 1505FRFranco-Flemish composer
- Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchemb. 1622NLDutch painter (1622–1683)
- Emile Berchemb. 1837LULuxembourg painter (1837-1918)
- Marguerite Gautier-Van Berchemb. 1892CHSwiss archaeologist (1892–1984)
- Léon Berchemb. 1897LU(1897-1961)
- Joseph Berchemb. 1906LULuxembourgish association football player
- Albert Berchemb. 1920LULuxembourgish politician (1920-1984)
- Pierre Berchemb. 1929LU(1929-2019)
- Theodor Berchemb. 1935DEGerman romanist
- Otto Berchemb. 1967USAmerican artist (born 1967)
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 12 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 256 | #71,143 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 243 | #78,567 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 218 | #90,848 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 37 | #32,209 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 28 | #28,759 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 13 | #58,590 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 10 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 9 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 8 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 8 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 7 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 7 | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- What does the name Berchem mean, and where does it come from?
- Toponymic surname from a place name; bearer count 223. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte.
- In which country does Berchem have the most bearers?
- Berchem is most frequently recorded in Belgium, where it is most often spelled berchem.
What do you want to know about Berchem?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/berchemThe 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, “Berchem”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.