Vliet

surname · Latin script

Meaning: body of moving water; stream, river, creek

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/vlit/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Vliet is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In the Netherlands it is the 45th most common surname.

rarermore common
  • AUAustralia≈1 in 77K(inferred from the name graph)
  • NLNetherlands1 in 166K
  • USUnited States1 in 508K

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.

United States (measured from records)

655 people, 2010

Sources
231 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 27K (inferred from the name graph)

Belgium, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

body of moving water; stream, river, creek

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Vliet 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 Vliet is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—6551 in 508K655Vliet231
CA Canada—≈450 est.≈1 in 83K—Vliet77
BE Belgium—≈440 est.≈1 in 27K—Vliet61
ZA South Africa—≈390 est.≈1 in 144K—Vliet19
AU Australia—≈330 est.≈1 in 77K—Vliet77
NL Netherlands#451041 in 166K104Vliet149
NZ New Zealand—≈57 est.≈1 in 86K—Vliet20

655 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010. 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)

Vliet is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Russian surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Netherlands, Russia, United States

    Languages: Russian, Belarusian, Ukrainian

    Also written Влит, Vleet, Влйт, Влиет

35 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)

19201940196019802000Dirk Jan van Vliet, b. 1924R. G. Vliet, b. 1929Captain Beefheart, b. 1941Elizabeth Lee Vliet, b. 1946Bradley Vliet, b. 1998

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)

FormalGeachte heer/mevrouw Vliet,Dear Vliet, (English)
InformalGeachte heer/mevrouw Vliet,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 9 sources across 4 countries.

Official registers attesting Vliet
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010655#34,539
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000618#34,630
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020594#39,885
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)2007104#18,444
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

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 Vliet mean, and where does it come from?
body of moving water; stream, river, creek Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Vliet?
A machine transcription gives /vlit/ (IPA) for Dutch.
In which country does Vliet have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 655 people named Vliet, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled vliet.
How common is the name Vliet?
In the United States, the national register counted 655 people named Vliet in 2010, about 1 in 508 thousand residents.
How common is Vliet compared with other names?
In the Netherlands, Vliet is the 45th most common surname of 284,143 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, “Vliet” — the 45th most common surname in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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