The Wouters surname
In the 2000 U.S. Census, 366 people carried this name — #53,047 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 714,300 people counted.
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In Belgium’s population register
At least 14,162 people named Wouters 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 238 people named Wouters.
37 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 21 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
38 people named Wouters live in Switzerland.
They live in 8 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
Wouters in American newspapers,
1881–1960.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 2,415 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Wouters,
with a public archive behind them.
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Cornelius Valerius 1512–1578 · teacher -
Andrew Wouters 1542–1572 · presbyter -
Frans Wouters 1612–1659 · painter -
Adolphe Wouters 1849–1924 · composer -
Johanna Petronella Odijk-Wouters 1867–1945 · women's rights activist
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 132 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Wouters.
- Woods 168,814 · U.S. census
- Woog 151 · U.S. census
- Worms 280 · U.S. census
- Wormser 309 · U.S. census
- Wos 464 · U.S. census
- Wourms 165 · U.S. census
- Wozniak 8,563 · U.S. census
- Woznica 112 · U.S. census
- Wozny 957 · U.S. census
- Wright 440,367 · U.S. census
- Wrobel 4,246 · U.S. census
- Wroblewski 4,602 · U.S. census
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