Demeyer

surname · Latin script

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020

Pronunciation:Explore pronunciation →

Demeyer is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Belgium than in any other country: 6,633 people, counted by Familienaam.be in 2008, which ranks it 52nd.

  • BEBelgium1 in 1.8K(measured from records)
  • FRFrance≈1 in 69K
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 227K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Belgium (measured from records)

6,633 people, 2008

Record sources
166 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 1.8K (inferred from the name graph)

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 the surname Demeyer is found

(measured from records)

Demeyer 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.

Where Demeyer is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BE Belgium#8176,6331 in 1.8K6.6KDemeyer50
FR France—≈990 est.≈1 in 69K143—2
US United States—7931 in 419K793Demeyer166
GB United Kingdom—≈160 est.≈1 in 430K—Demeyer21
CA Canada—≈80 est.≈1 in 517K—Demeyer21
LS Lesotho#273≈76 est.≈1 in 31K—Demeyer1
CH Switzerland—371 in 227K37Demeyer5

6,633 people counted by Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register), 2008, counting the spelling de meyer. 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; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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 names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Demeyer is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium, United States, United Kingdom

    Also written De-Meyer

  • Spanish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Argentina, Brazil, Belgium

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written De Meyer

31 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name

(measured from records)
1950196019701980Marc Demeyer, b. 1950Willy Demeyer, b. 1959Ruth Demeijer, b. 1977

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)
FormalDear Demeyer,
InformalHello,

Evidence

(measured from records)

15 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

Which countries have the most people with the surname Demeyer?
In Belgium, the national register counted about 6.6 thousand people named Demeyer, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled demeyer. After it come France, United States, United Kingdom and Canada; the country table on this page ranks them.
Where is Demeyer most common?
Demeyer is densest in Belgium, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.8 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Demeyer?
In Belgium, the national register counted 6,633 people named Demeyer in 2008, about 1 in 1.8 thousand residents.
How common is Demeyer compared with other names?
In Belgium, Demeyer is the 817th most common surname of 246,397 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Demeyer” — ranked 52nd in Belgium (Familienaam.be, 2008). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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