Flanders

At the 2020 census, 8,047 Americans bore the surname Flanders — 4,262nd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 37,100.

By the numbers

People: 8,047
Rank: 4,262nd
How common: 1 in 37,100
Per 100,000: 2.7

Where the name comes from

From Middle English Flaundres, from Anglo-Norman Flaundre, Flaundres, from Middle Dutch Vlâendren, from Vlander, from Old Frisian, from Proto-West Germanic *flaumdr (“waterlogged land”), from *flaum (“flowing, current (water)”) (compare Old High German weraltfloum, Old Norse flaumr), from Proto-Indo-European *plow-m- (“flow”) (compare Ancient Greek πλῠ́μα). More at flow.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Flanders described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 82.4%
Black, not Hispanic 9.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Flanders

Prince Charles, Count of Flanders (1903–1983)prince, painter
Ed Flanders (1934–1995)American actor
Joanna of Flanders (1295–1374)Duchess of Britain
Ralph Flanders (1880–1970)American engineer, industrialist, and politician

People named Flanders with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Flanders

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.