Roelants
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: Familienaam.be, 2008
/ruːlɑnts/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Roelants is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Belgium than in any other country.
- BEBelgium1 in 7.5K(measured from records)
- LULuxembourg≈1 in 35K
- NLNetherlands1 in 168K
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.
- Belgium (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 91 (measured from records)
- 1 in 7.5K (inferred from the name graph)
1,562 people, 2008
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: 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.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Roelants 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | #868 | 1,562 | 1 in 7.5K | 1.6K | Roelants | 63 |
| FR France | — | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 349K | 18 | Roelants | 91 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 103 | 1 in 168K | 103 | Roelants | 24 |
| US United States | — | ≈48 est. | ≈1 in 6.9M | listed | Roelants | 42 |
| LU Luxembourg | — | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | Roelants | 5 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 463K | — | Roelants | 7 |
1,562 people counted by Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register), 2008. 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); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; 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)- Jacob Roelantsb. 1568BEimperial Postmaster; knight in the district of Eindhout, near Antwerp; became in 1625 a member of the Great Council of Mechelen.
- John Roelantsb. 1907BEBelgian politician (1907-1980)
- Gaston Roelantsb. 1937BEBelgian steeplechaser and cross country runner (born 1937)
- François Roelants du Vivierb. 1947BEBelgian politician
- Carolien Roelantsb. 1948NLDutch journalist
- Joseph RoelantsBEBelgian artist
- Kim RoelantsBEherpetologist
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)12 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1.6K | #723 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 1.4K | #792 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 103 | #18,549 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 36 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 34 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 34 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 32 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 27 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 26 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 24 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 24 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 18 | — |
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
- How do you pronounce Roelants?
- A machine transcription gives /ruːlɑnts/ (IPA) for Dutch.
- In which country does Roelants have the most bearers?
- In Belgium, the national register counted about 1.6 thousand people named Roelants, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled roelants.
- Where is Roelants most common?
- Roelants is densest in Belgium, where the national register counts about 1 in 7.5 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Roelants?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 1,562 people named Roelants in 2008, about 1 in 7.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Roelants compared with other names?
- In Belgium, Roelants is the 868th most common surname of 246,397 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/roelantsThe 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, “Roelants” — the 868th most common surname in Belgium. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.