The Vanfleteren surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 113 people carried this name — #146,201 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 2,500,000 people counted. That is up 3% from 110 in 2000.
In Belgium’s population register
At least 369 people named Vanfleteren 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 78 people named Vanfleteren.
9 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 9 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.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Vanfleteren.
- Vandewoestyne 107 · U.S. census
- Vandezande 530 · U.S. census
- Vandoorne 180 · U.S. census
- Vandorpe 186 · U.S. census
- Vandyck 834 · U.S. census
- Vanetti 110 · U.S. census
- Vang 48,036 · U.S. census
- Vanhaverbeke 107 · U.S. census
- Vanhecke 543 · U.S. census
- Vanhee 236 · U.S. census
- Vanhoecke 123 · U.S. census
- Vanhollebeke 196 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
This page says where Vanfleteren is.
A volume says what happened to it.
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