The Wyffels surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 403 people carried this name — #51,610 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 714,300 people counted. That is up 1% from 400 in 2000.
In Belgium’s population register
At least 623 people named Wyffels 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 93 people named Wyffels.
7 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 8 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.
Who carried it
People named Wyffels,
with a public archive behind them.
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Jacques Wyffels 1920– · association football player
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Carlos Wyffels 1922–2003 · historian
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Alain Wyffels 1966– · politician
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Francis Wyffels 1983– · researcher
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Francis Wyffels 1996– · photojournalist
Wikidata (CC0).
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Wyffels.
- Wurster 2,154 · U.S. census
- Wurth 1,241 · U.S. census
- Wurtz 2,357 · U.S. census
- Wurtzel 411 · U.S. census
- Wust 157 · U.S. census
- Wuthrich 765 · U.S. census
- Wypych 213 · U.S. census
- Wysocki 4,758 · U.S. census
- Wyss 2,102 · U.S. census
- Xavier 3,367 · U.S. census
- Ximenez 401 · U.S. census
- Xiong 37,499 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
This page says where Wyffels is.
A volume says what happened to it.
Every page in the index is free and stays free. The Heritage Volume is the long form: the full paper trail, the arms, the crossing — bound, and yours.