The Peeters surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 863 people carried this name — #27,818 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 344,800 people counted. That is up 4% from 828 in 2000.
In Belgium’s population register
At least 29,888 people named Peeters 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 482 people named Peeters.
110 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 42 départements, most often Nord.
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 Switzerland’s population statistics
118 people named Peeters 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 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In print
Peeters in American newspapers,
1893–1962.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 2,285 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Peeters,
with a public archive behind them.
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Clara Peeters 1587–1657 · painter -
Bonaventura Peeters the Elder 1614–1652 · poet -
Sophia Elizabeth Peeters 1833–1916 · writer -
Maurice Peeters 1882–1957 · sport cyclist -
Bert Peeters 1915–2011
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 209 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Peeters.
- Pedrotti 438 · U.S. census
- Peduzzi 326 · U.S. census
- Pee 616 · U.S. census
- Peel 6,647 · U.S. census
- Peers 583 · U.S. census
- Pees 160 · U.S. census
- Pegoraro 100 · U.S. census
- Pegues 3,864 · U.S. census
- Peifer 1,459 · U.S. census
- Peiffer 2,938 · U.S. census
- Pein 194 · U.S. census
- Peinado 1,615 · U.S. census
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