Peeters

surname · Dutch · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Peeters is a surname, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Belgium it is the 2nd most common surname. It appears chiefly in Dutch and German, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: alternative form of Peters, a surname originating as a patronymic.

rarermore common
  • BEBelgium1 in 359◐
  • NLNetherlands1 in 574
  • USUnited States1 in 2.4K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈215K ●

across 21 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
137 ●

19K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 121 ◐

St. Vincent & Grenadines

Spellings & scripts●

PeetersLatin · Dutch●81K records
ปีเตอร์สThai · Thai●81 records

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Peters in TH Thailand, LA Laos, ZA South Africa.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

alternative form of Peters, a surname originating as a patronymic

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Peeters is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—137,513△2.3K rec.1 in 2.4K138KPeeters125
BE Belgium#232,657△8.7K rec.1 in 35933KPeeters137
NL Netherlands#4730,106△5.1K rec.1 in 57430KPeeters104
BR Brazil—4,566—1 in 46K4.6K——
GY Guyana—3,329—1 in 2253.3K——
DE Germany—1,4931.3K rec.—listedPeeters76
VC St. Vincent & Grenadines—835—1 in 121835——
TH Thailand—822679 rec.—#377,970Peters59
SE Sweden—817△14 rec.1 in 12K817Peeters8
AR Argentina—769—1 in 59K769——
GD Grenada—692—1 in 163692——
CH Switzerland—666△32 rec.1 in 13K666Peeters15

Roughly 138K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 2.4K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Dutch81K51%
  • German36K23%
  • Western Frisian14K9%
  • English13K8%
  • French8.4K5%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Dutch81,40851%
German36,29323%
Western Frisian14,0549%
English13,3278%
French8,4475%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Peeters is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname9.2K records spelled Peeters4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium, Netherlands, Spain

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Pêeters, Péeters

45 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Over time●

05010015019001920194019601980149 · 1951

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Peeters in INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000), France, 1891–1991
Yearrecords
189148
190141
191165
1921115
193165
1941129
1951149
1961143
1971141
1981129
1991132

FR INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) — 11 years between 1891–1991. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

150016001700180019002000Clara Peeters, b. 1597Maurice Peeters, b. 1882Flor Peeters, b. 1903Benoît Peeters, b. 1956Bart Peeters, b. 1959Filip Peeters, b. 1962Kris Peeters, b. 1962Wilfried Peeters, b. 1964Jacky Peeters, b. 1969Frederik Peeters, b. 1974

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 30 sources across 17 countries.

Official registers attesting Peeters
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)200833K#1
BE BelgiumStatbel — Noms de famille (family names)—30K#1
AW ArubaThis page presents data on the most common family names in Belgium, published by Statbel, the Belgian statistical office202530K#1
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)200714K#28
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201K#25,516
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010863#27,818
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000828#27,413
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—210#15,964
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—210#15,898
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1951149—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1961143—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1971141—

Reference works 5

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 43 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Peeters?
We estimate roughly 215 thousand people bear Peeters (counting its spellings and scripts) across 21 countries in our records.
In which country does Peeters have the most bearers?
We estimate about 138 thousand people bear Peeters in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled peeters.
Where is Peeters most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Peeters is densest in St. Vincent & Grenadines — about 1 in 121 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is Peeters compared with other names?
In Belgium, Peeters is the 2nd most common surname of 299,621 surnames recorded there.
What does the name Peeters mean?
Recorded meaning: alternative form of Peters, a surname originating as a patronymic
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Peeters” — the 2nd most common surname in Belgium. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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