The Flanders surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 8,787 people carried this name — #4,043 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 33,600 people counted. That is up 6% from 8,291 in 2000.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 57 people named Flanders.
14 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 3 départements, most often Guadeloupe.
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.
Among the farmers of England and Wales, 1880s
Flanders was found among the farmers of 2 counties.
It was most frequent in Cambridgeshire: 24 in every 10,000 farmers there — about 1 in 417. Guppy counted the farmers listed in each county’s directory and recorded a name only where it reached about 7 in every 10,000; where it does not appear, it was rarer than that, not absent.
Where it concentrates, on the mapPer 10,000 farmers, by county
H. B. Guppy, «Homes of Family Names in Great Britain» (London, 1890), alphabetical list of English and Welsh names — public domain · farmers in Kelly’s Post Office Directories of the 1880s, per 10,000 farmers in each county.
In print
Flanders in American newspapers,
1911–1917.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 199,522 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Flanders,
with a public archive behind them.
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Benjamin Flanders 1816–1896 · politician -
Alvan Flanders 1825–1894 · politician -
Stephen Flanders 1835– · politician -
James Greeley Flanders 1844–1920 · lawyer -
Walter Flanders 1871–1923 · entrepreneur -
John J. Flanders 1874–1914 · architect
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Flanders.
- Flak 278 · U.S. census
- Flamand 367 · U.S. census
- Flament 191 · U.S. census
- Flamion 235 · U.S. census
- Flammang 366 · U.S. census
- Flamme 156 · U.S. census
- Flavin 2,064 · U.S. census
- Fleck 8,852 · U.S. census
- Fleig 894 · U.S. census
- Fleisch 321 · U.S. census
- Fleischer 3,981 · U.S. census
- Fleischmann 2,206 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
This page says where Flanders is.
A volume says what happened to it.
Every page in the index is free and stays free. The Heritage Volume is the long form: the full paper trail, the arms, the crossing — bound, and yours.