Staelens
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/staelɛnz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Staelens is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- BEBelgium1 in 4.6K(measured from records)
- FRFrance≈1 in 154K
- USUnited States1 in 1.4M
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 128 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,600 people, est.
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.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Staelens 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 528K | — | Staelens | 1 |
| BE Belgium | #512 | 2,564 | 1 in 4.6K | 2.6K | Staelens | 75 |
| FR France | — | ≈440 est. | ≈1 in 154K | 57 | Staelens | 128 |
| US United States | — | 244 | 1 in 1.4M | 244 | Staelens | 98 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈47 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | 12 | Staelens | 23 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈29 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | — | Staelens | 13 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 28 | 1 in 617K | 28 | Staelens | 20 |
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; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral 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)
- Jules Felix Staelensb. 1830person (1830-1906)
- Alida Maria Philomena Staelensb. 1879wife of Stijn Streuvels (1879-1975)
- Jean-Pierre Staelensb. 1945FRFrench basketball player (1945–2000)
- Lorenzo Staelensb. 1964BEBelgian association football player
- Kim Staelensb. 1982NLvolleyball player
- Gary Staelensb. 1984FRFrench basketball player (born 1984)
- Kenneth Staelensb. 1991BEBelgian footballer
- Alessio Staelensb. 1994BEfootballer
- Steven Staelensb. 2000researcher
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 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 2.6K | #355 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 2.5K | #348 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 244 | #78,316 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 241 | #83,936 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 204 | #85,297 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 81 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 79 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 77 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 68 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 64 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 57 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 39 | — |
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 Staelens?
- A machine transcription gives /staelɛnz/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Staelens have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.6 thousand people named Staelens in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled staelens.
- Where is Staelens most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Staelens is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 4.6 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Staelens?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 2,564 people named Staelens in 2008, about 1 in 4.6 thousand residents.
- How common is Staelens compared with other names?
- In Belgium, Staelens is the 512th most common surname of 246,397 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Staelens?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/staelensThe 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, “Staelens” — the 512th most common surname in Belgium. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.