Flanders
loc · Latin script
Meaning: A historical region and modern administrative region in the north of Belgium, consisting of the Dutch-speaking area of Belgium (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: St Kitts & Nevis, 2026
Flanders is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 8,787 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010.
- KNSt. Kitts & Nevis1 in 1.5K(measured from records)
- GDGrenada1 in 2.2K
- USUnited States1 in 38K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 357 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.5K (inferred from the name graph)
8,787 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
St. Kitts & Nevis
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)A historical region and modern administrative region in the north of Belgium, consisting of the Dutch-speaking area of Belgium.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Flanders is found
(measured from records)Flanders 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 8,787 | 1 in 38K | 8.8K | Flanders | 357 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 32K | — | Flanders | 124 |
| CA Canada | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 40K | — | Flanders | 77 |
| FR France | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 591K | 40 | — | 2 |
| NL Netherlands | 66 | 1 in 262K | 66 | Flanders | 22 |
| GD Grenada | 52 | 1 in 2.2K | 52 | — | 2 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | 37 | 1 in 1.5K | 37 | — | 6 |
8,787 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026. 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Flanders is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, region, Belgium
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, from Flanders; first attested Euerdai de Flandria a1191 DC
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Ralph Flandersb. 1880USAmerican engineer, industrialist, and politician (1880–1970)
- Prince Charles, Count of Flandersb. 1903BEprince, painter (1903-1983)
- Ed Flandersb. 1934USAmerican actor (1934–1995)
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)20 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Flanders mean, and where does it come from?
- A historical region and modern administrative region in the north of Belgium, consisting of the Dutch-speaking area of Belgium. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Flanders?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 8.8 thousand people named Flanders, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled flanders. After it come United Kingdom, Canada, France and Netherlands; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Flanders most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Flanders is densest in St. Kitts & Nevis — about 1 in 1.5 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Flanders?
- In the United States, the national register counted 8,787 people named Flanders in 2010, about 1 in 38 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/flandersThe 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, “Flanders” — ranked 3936th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.