Vuylsteke
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ʋuɪlstɛk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Vuylsteke is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Belgium than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 230K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 1.6M
- BEBelgium1 in 7.6K
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)
- Sources
- 122 (measured from records)
- 1 in 7.6K (inferred from the name graph)
1,533 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)
Vuylsteke 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 | 1,533 | 1 in 7.6K | 1.5K | Vuylsteke | 66 |
| SD Sudan | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 32K | — | Vuylsteke | 1 |
| FR France | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 230K | 44 | Vuylsteke | 122 |
| US United States | 212 | 1 in 1.6M | 221 | Vuylsteke | 105 |
| CA Canada | ≈24 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | Vuylsteke | 16 |
| NL Netherlands | 18 | 1 in 960K | 18 | Vuylsteke | 24 |
| SG Singapore | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | Vuylsteke | 7 |
1,533 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); 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)
- Louis Vuylstekeb. 1774BEBelgian politician
- Ferdinand Vuylstekeb. 1805BEBelgian politician
- Pauline Adelaïde Vuylstekeb. 1811BEnun and mother superior (1811-1893)
- Adelaida Antonia Vuylstekeb. 1825BEpensioner (1825-1896)
- Julius Vuylstekeb. 1836BEBelgian lawyer, bookseller, politician, writer and poet (1836-1903)
- Pelagie Vuylstekeb. 1840BEnun and mother superior (1840-1909)
- Adeline Vuylstekeb. 1861person (1861-1925)
- Leon Vuylstekeb. 1905BEBelgian politician (1905-1989)
- Richard VuylstekeTWAmerican diplomat
- Alicia Vuylstekeshopkeeper
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 17 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1.5K | #739 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 1.4K | #781 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 221 | #89,848 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 212 | #87,663 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 189 | #90,652 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 54 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 49 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 46 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 44 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 42 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 39 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 38 | — |
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 Vuylsteke?
- A machine transcription gives /ʋuɪlstɛk/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Vuylsteke have the most bearers?
- In Belgium, the national register counted about 1.5 thousand people named Vuylsteke, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled vuylsteke.
- Where is Vuylsteke most common?
- Vuylsteke is densest in Belgium, where the national register counts about 1 in 7.6 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Vuylsteke?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 1,533 people named Vuylsteke in 2008, about 1 in 7.6 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Vuylsteke?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/vuylstekeThe 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, “Vuylsteke”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.