The Schepers surname
In the 2000 U.S. Census, 1,069 people carried this name — #22,461 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 250,000 people counted.
In Belgium’s population register
At least 2,946 people named Schepers 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 Limburg.
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 66 people named Schepers.
5 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 15 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 print
Schepers in American newspapers,
1896–1962.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 2,141 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Schepers,
with a public archive behind them.
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Willem Bastiaensz Schepers 1619–1704 · businessperson -
Jacobus Gerardus Schepers 1798–1863 · Catholic priest -
Heinrich Schepers 1925–2020 · university teacher -
Wim Schepers 1943–1998 · sport cyclist -
John Schepers 1944–1995 · sport cyclist
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 42 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Schepers.
- Schena 583 · U.S. census
- Schenck 6,016 · U.S. census
- Schenk 7,575 · U.S. census
- Schenkel 1,356 · U.S. census
- Schenker 1,095 · U.S. census
- Schepens 114 · U.S. census
- Scheppler 155 · U.S. census
- Scher 2,827 · U.S. census
- Scherb 333 · U.S. census
- Scherer 12,889 · U.S. census
- Schermann 257 · U.S. census
- Scherr 2,305 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
This page says where Schepers is.
A volume says what happened to it.
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