Soetaert
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/səɛtəɝt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Soetaert is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Belgium than in any other country.
- BEBelgium1 in 12K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 1.2M
- NONorway1 in 1.4M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Belgium (measured from records)
- Sources
- 3 (measured from records)
- 1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
1,011 people, 2008
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 in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Soetaert 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 | 1,011 | 1 in 12K | 1K | — | 1 |
| US United States | 285 | 1 in 1.2M | 310 | Soetaert | 3 |
| ES Spain | 6 | 1 in 8.3M | 6 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 4 | 1 in 1.4M | 4 | — | 1 |
| FR France | — | — | 27 | — | — |
1,011 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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)
- Arthur Soetaertb. 1913CACanadian politician (1913-2006)
- Ann Soetaertb. 1947BEBelgian singer
- Eddy Soetaertb. 1948BEBelgian sports journalist
- Noël Soetaertb. 1949BEcyclist
- Ronald Soetaertb. 1951Flemish professor and writer (1951-)
- Francis Soetaertb. 1952FRFrench politician
- Doug Soetaertb. 1955CACanadian ice hockey player
- Colleen Soetaertb. 1956CACanadian politician
- Gary Soetaertb. 1957CACanadian ice hockey player
- Wim Soetaertb. 1964BEacademic, research director
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)
Attested in 12 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1K | #1,317 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 944 | #1,417 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 310 | #68,391 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 285 | #68,949 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 278 | #66,476 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 50 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 41 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 39 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 31 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 29 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 27 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 21 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Soetaert?
- A machine transcription gives /səɛtəɝt/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Soetaert have the most bearers?
- In Belgium, the national register counted about 1.0 thousand people named Soetaert, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Soetaert most common?
- Soetaert is densest in Belgium, where the national register counts about 1 in 12 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Soetaert?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 1,011 people named Soetaert in 2008, about 1 in 12 thousand 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/soetaertThe 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, “Soetaert”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.