Waterloo
loc · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Waterloo is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Belgium.
- BEBelgium
- SLSierra Leone
- CACanada
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)
Comme la défaite de Waterloo n’a pas laissé de très bons souvenirs en France, le mot a pris, avec minuscule, en français argotique, les sens de « désastre » ou de « malchance persistante » d’après le Dictionnaire de l’argot de Larousse. Voir Trafalgar .
Sources 1
- 2500 noms propres devenus communs : dictionnaire étymologique (éponymes, antonomases et hypallages)
Attested across 2 languages 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Waterloo is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, commune, battlesite, Belgium
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, J. US & Canadian pi name
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In Italian, Waterloo (great defeat or failure)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, Waterloo (village in Belgium)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Anthonie Waterloob. 1609FRFlemish painter and engraver (1609-1690)
- Jan Pieter Waterloob. 1790NLDutch painter and drawer (1790-1861)
- Stanley Waterloob. 1846USAmerican newspaperman, editor, newspaper owner, and author (1846–1913)
- Knut Waterloob. 1953NONorwegian psychiatrist
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 13 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 287 | #72,902 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 267 | #72,771 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 240 | #74,957 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 86 | #17,402 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 49 | #31,245 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 37 | #129,205 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 20 | #47,376 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 19 | — |
| US United States | wru 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
- In which country does Waterloo have the most bearers?
- Waterloo is most frequently recorded in Belgium.
What do you want to know about Waterloo?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/waterlooThe 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, “Waterloo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.