Vercauteren surname: U.S. census count, rank and records | FamilyCrests

The Vercauteren surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 224 people carried this name — #83,834 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 1,250,000 people counted. That is down 4% from 233 in 2000.

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Where the name comes from

The origin of the Vercauteren surname

Contraction of van der Cauteren, from kouter; see also ver-.

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Vercauteren» (Dutch), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.

In Belgium’s population register

At least 3,613 people named Vercauteren 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 map

Where they live today

East Flanders 2,252
Antwerp 879
Flemish Brabant 146
West Flanders 137
Hainaut 80
Brussels-Capital 51
Limburg 26
Liège 18

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 148 people named Vercauteren.

21 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 16 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

Born outside France 21
Nord 76
Paris 12
Aisne 8
Pas-de-Calais 6
Ardèche 5
Seine-et-Marne 5
Seine-Saint-Denis 3
Gironde 3

Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.

Who carried it

People named Vercauteren,
with a public archive behind them.

  • Charles Joseph Vercauteren 1806–1883 · magistrate
  • Jozef Vercauteren 1902–1981 · politician
  • Fernand Vercauteren 1903–1979 · historian
  • Etienne Vercauteren 1935–2009 · sport cyclist
  • Joseph Vercauteren 1952– · researcher
  • Pierre Vercauteren 1953– · political scientist

Wikidata (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.

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