Willems

At the 2020 census, 2,555 Americans bore the surname Willems — 11,733rd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 117,000.

By the numbers

People: 2,555
Rank: 11,733rd
How common: 1 in 117,000
Per 100,000: 0.85

Where the name comes from

Origin a patronymic

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 89.5%
Hispanic or Latino 4.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.7%
Black, not Hispanic 0.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.1%

Notable people called Willems

Jetro Willems (born 1994)Dutch association football player
Jan Frans Willems (1793–1846)writer
Ko Willems (1900–1983)Dutch racing cyclist
Victor Willems (1877–1920)fencer
Theo Willems (1891–1960)Dutch archer
Frederik Willems (born 1979)Belgian road bicycle racer
Gabriella Willems (born 1997)Belgian judoka
Daniel Willems (1956–2016)Belgian road bicycle racer

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

Surnames like Willems

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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.