The Ketels surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 151 people carried this name — #115,639 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 2,000,000 people counted. That is up 9% from 139 in 2000.
In Belgium’s population register
At least 805 people named Ketels 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 60 people named Ketels.
12 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 10 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.
In the Nordic population registers
20 people named Ketels 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).
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Ketels.
- Kesler 6,704 · U.S. census
- Kessel 4,976 · U.S. census
- Kesseler 159 · U.S. census
- Kessler 29,064 · U.S. census
- Kesteloot 246 · U.S. census
- Kestler 1,030 · U.S. census
- Ketterer 2,620 · U.S. census
- Kettler 3,424 · U.S. census
- Keusch 320 · U.S. census
- Kevorkian 681 · U.S. census
- Keyser 7,978 · U.S. census
- Khaled 731 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
This page says where Ketels 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.