The Damen surname
In the 2000 U.S. Census, 290 people carried this name — #64,186 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 909,100 people counted.
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In Belgium’s population register
At least 702 people named Damen 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 53 people named Damen.
9 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 10 départements, most often Meurthe-et-Moselle.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In print
Damen in American newspapers,
1866–1929.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 213,132 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Damen,
with a public archive behind them.
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Arnold Damen 1815–1890 · missionary -
Hermanus Johannes Damen 1870–1953 · physician -
Frans Damen 1888–1951 · politician -
Onorato Damen 1893–1979 · politician -
Jan Damen 1898–1957 · musician
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 62 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Damen.
- Daly 30,434 · U.S. census
- Dam 2,570 · U.S. census
- Damas 1,099 · U.S. census
- Dambach 432 · U.S. census
- Dambreville 141 · U.S. census
- Dame 3,528 · U.S. census
- Dameron 3,807 · U.S. census
- Damery 280 · U.S. census
- Dames 1,592 · U.S. census
- Dami 204 · U.S. census
- Damian 4,631 · U.S. census
- Damiani 1,755 · U.S. census
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