The Watte surname
In the 2000 U.S. Census, 138 people carried this name — #116,835 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 2,000,000 people counted.
In Belgium’s population register
At least 163 people named Watte 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 69 people named Watte.
4 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.
In the Nordic population registers
37 people named Watte is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Watte.
- Waszak 682 · U.S. census
- Watier 103 · U.S. census
- Watkins 127,083 · U.S. census
- Watrin 139 · U.S. census
- Watson 252,579 · U.S. census
- Watt 15,211 · U.S. census
- Wattier 354 · U.S. census
- Watts 89,649 · U.S. census
- Wauters 459 · U.S. census
- Wawrzyniak 1,093 · U.S. census
- Wax 1,838 · U.S. census
- Way 14,157 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
This page says where Watte is.
A volume says what happened to it.
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