The Geerts surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 577 people carried this name — #38,389 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 500,000 people counted. That is up 13% from 512 in 2000.
In Belgium’s population register
At least 5,280 people named Geerts 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 140 people named Geerts.
27 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 22 départements, most often Paris.
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
Geerts in American newspapers,
1908–1917.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 1,537 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Geerts,
with a public archive behind them.
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Anton Johannes Cornelis Geerts 1843–1883 · chemist -
Paul Geerts 1937– · screenwriter -
André Geerts 1955–2010 · comics artist -
Raymond Geerts 1959– · guitarist -
Wim Geerts 1963– · diplomat
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 51 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Geerts.
- Gebhardt 4,981 · U.S. census
- Gebhart 3,367 · U.S. census
- Gedeon 1,675 · U.S. census
- Gee 23,241 · U.S. census
- Geenen 336 · U.S. census
- Geers 1,030 · U.S. census
- Geffre 653 · U.S. census
- Gehan 216 · U.S. census
- Gehant 123 · U.S. census
- Gehin 121 · U.S. census
- Gehl 1,318 · U.S. census
- Gehrig 1,138 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
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