Deckers
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/dɛkɐs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Deckers is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Belgium. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Lanarks. variant of Decker or Dekker .
- BEBelgium
- NLNetherlands
- DEGermany
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Main GB Location (1881): Lanarks. variant of Decker or Dekker .
Sources 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
- Franz Deckersb. 1826DEGerman architect
- Willem Deckersb. 1826NLDutch singer (1826–1899)
- Laurentius Nicolaas Deckersb. 1883NLDutch politician (1883-1978)
- Eugene Deckersb. 1917BEBelgian actor
- Georges Deckersb. 1931BEBelgian politician
- Soeur Sourireb. 1933BEnot in their usual nameBelgian nun and musician
- Johannes Georg Deckersb. 1940DEGerman archaeologist
- Peter Deckersb. 1953NLDutch born New Zealand jeweller (1953— )
- Daphne Deckersb. 1968NLDutch host, writer and actress (born 1968)
- Bertrand Deckersb. 1985BEBelgian journalist
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 23 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 3.8K | #194 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 3.8K | #184 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 2.1K | #610 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 190 | #101,282 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 165 | #101,157 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 136 | #126,018 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 56 | #96,827 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 29 | #65,817 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 29 | #64,358 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 18 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 16 | #46,839 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 16 | #29,307 |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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
- What does the name Deckers mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): Lanarks. variant of Decker or Dekker . Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- How do you pronounce Deckers?
- A machine transcription gives /dɛkɐs/ (IPA) for German.
- In which country does Deckers have the most bearers?
- Deckers is most frequently recorded in Belgium.
What do you want to know about Deckers?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/deckersThe 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, “Deckers”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.