The Moens surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 191 people carried this name — #95,545 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 1,666,700 people counted. That is up 6% from 180 in 2000.
In Belgium’s population register
At least 5,141 people named Moens 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 East 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 138 people named Moens.
25 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 20 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 Moens,
with a public archive behind them.
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Petronella Moens 1762–1843 · writer -
Anna Maria Moens 1775–1832 · writer -
Jean-Baptiste Moens 1833–1908 · printer -
William John Charles Möens 1833–1904 · genealogist -
Gaspar Melchior Moens 1698–1762 · artist
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Bernardus Moens 1746–1837 · dean
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Moens.
- Modeste 834 · U.S. census
- Modesti 170 · U.S. census
- Modesto 1,800 · U.S. census
- Modica 2,655 · U.S. census
- Moebs 119 · U.S. census
- Moench 766 · U.S. census
- Moerman 317 · U.S. census
- Moes 917 · U.S. census
- Moesch 395 · U.S. census
- Moessner 277 · U.S. census
- Moga 631 · U.S. census
- Moge 117 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
This page says where Moens is.
A volume says what happened to it.
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