The Fleck surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 8,852 people carried this name — #4,012 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 33,300 people counted. That is up 4% from 8,516 in 2000.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 585 people named Fleck.
30 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 40 départements, most often Haut-Rhin.
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 Argentina’s national register
At least 135 people named Fleck live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Misiones.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
113 people named Fleck live in Switzerland.
They live in 11 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.
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/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In the Nordic population registers
25 people named Fleck is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).
In print
Fleck in American newspapers,
1924.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 94,061 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Fleck,
with a public archive behind them.
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Matthaeus Fleck 1524–1592 -
Gabriel Fleck d. 1890 · architect
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Ernst Fleck d. 1884
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Agnes Hendry Duncan d. 1947
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Konrad Fleck 1200–1300 · writer
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Vitalis Fleck 1500–1477 · physician
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Fleck.
- Flament 191 · U.S. census
- Flamion 235 · U.S. census
- Flammang 366 · U.S. census
- Flamme 156 · U.S. census
- Flanders 8,787 · U.S. census
- Flavin 2,064 · 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
- Fleming 90,677 · U.S. census
- Flesch 1,487 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
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