The Aerts surname
In the 2000 U.S. Census, 494 people carried this name — #41,522 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 555,600 people counted.
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In Belgium’s population register
At least 11,375 people named Aerts live in Belgium.
Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Antwerp.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 231 people named Aerts.
46 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 21 départements, most often Nord.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
25 people named Aerts live in Switzerland.
They live in 5 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Geneva.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Aerts.
- Adrian 5,244 · U.S. census
- Adriano 1,015 · U.S. census
- Adrien 410 · U.S. census
- Adrion 175 · U.S. census
- Adrover 112 · U.S. census
- Aegerter 347 · U.S. census
- Aeschlimann 241 · U.S. census
- Affolter 674 · U.S. census
- Afonso 1,068 · U.S. census
- Agar 1,084 · U.S. census
- Agard 1,162 · U.S. census
- Agati 164 · U.S. census
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