The Deruyter surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 807 people carried this name — #29,309 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 370,400 people counted. That is up 11% from 726 in 2000.
Where the name comes from
The origin of the Deruyter surname
A surname, an older spelling of de Ruiter.
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «de Ruyter» (Dutch), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In Belgium’s population register
At least 263 people named Deruyter 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 West Flanders.
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 51 people named Deruyter.
4 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 9 départements, most often Nord.
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.
Who carried it
People named Deruyter,
with a public archive behind them.
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Charles Deruyter 1890–1955 · sport cyclist -
Yves Deruyter 1970– · disc jockey
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0).
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Deruyter.
- Deroy 564 · U.S. census
- Derr 7,456 · U.S. census
- Derro 117 · U.S. census
- Deru 146 · U.S. census
- Derudder 154 · U.S. census
- Derue 259 · U.S. census
- Dervin 356 · U.S. census
- Dery 1,506 · U.S. census
- Derycke 232 · U.S. census
- Desain 121 · U.S. census
- Desandre 211 · U.S. census
- Desante 136 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
This page says where Deruyter is.
A volume says what happened to it.
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