Wouters
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Wouters is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Belgium than in any other country.
- BEBelgium1 in 745(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 2K
- FIFinland1 in 180K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 9 (measured from records)
- 1 in 745 (inferred from the name graph)
15,732 people, 2008
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Ваутерс in FI Finland.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
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)
Wouters 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 | 15,732 | 1 in 745 | 16K | Wouters | 9 |
| NL Netherlands | 8,709 | 1 in 2K | 8.7K | Wouters | 8 |
| US United States | 412 | 1 in 807K | 532 | — | 3 |
| BR Brazil | 307 | 1 in 690K | 307 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 103 | 1 in 486K | 103 | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 45 | 1 in 187K | 45 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 31 | 1 in 329K | 31 | — | — |
| FI Finland | 31 | 1 in 180K | 31 | Ваутерс | 1 |
15,732 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); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)
- Frans Woutersb. 1612BEFlemish painter (1612-1659)
- Adolphe Woutersb. 1849BEBelgian composer (1849–1924)
- Rik Woutersb. 1882BEBelgian painter and sculptor (1882-1916)
- Lode Woutersb. 1929BEcyclist (1929–2014)
- Liliane Woutersb. 1930BEBelgian poet (1930-2016)
- Hugues C. Pernathb. 1931BEnot in their usual nameFlemish poet (1931–1975)
- Joseph Woutersb. 1942BEBelgian cyclist
- Jan Woutersb. 1960NLDutch footballer
- Enzo Woutersb. 1996BEBelgian road cyclist
- Dries Woutersb. 1997BEBelgian association football player
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 28 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 16K | #9 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 15K | #9 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 8.7K | #64 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 532 | #43,697 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 412 | #50,659 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 366 | #53,047 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 307 | #25,867 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 103 | #27,086 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 103 | #26,881 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 45 | #20,234 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 31 | #18,558 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 31 | #34,370 |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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
- In which country does Wouters have the most bearers?
- In Belgium, the national register counted about 16 thousand people named Wouters, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wouters.
- Where is Wouters most common?
- Wouters is densest in Belgium, where the national register counts about 1 in 745 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Wouters?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 15,732 people named Wouters in 2008, about 1 in 745 residents.
What do you want to know about Wouters?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/woutersThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Wouters”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.