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The FLANDERS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 8,291 3936 0.003 31
United States (1880 census) 3,541 1728 0.007 71
Change since 1880 +4750 -2208 -0.004 -40
Other Countries
Australia 388 4092 0.002 24
United Kingdom 659 7251 0.001 14
Top States for FLANDERS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Georgia 720 1504 0.009 88
Florida 687 3078 0.004 43
California 655 4538 0.002 19
New York 561 3542 0.003 30
New Hampshire 484 352 0.039 392
Top States for FLANDERS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New Hampshire 484 352 0.039 392
Vermont 204 455 0.034 335
Maine 284 924 0.022 223
Georgia 720 1504 0.009 88
Massachusetts 478 1930 0.008 75

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called FLANDERS live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called FLANDERS represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called FLANDERS in Georgia than any other state, but you are more likely to find a FLANDERS by picking someone at random in New Hampshire than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of FLANDERS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the FLANDERS surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the FLANDERS surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of FLANDERS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 696 8.39
White (Hispanic) 152 1.83
Mixed Race 115 1.39
Native American/Alaskan 39 0.47
Asian/Pacific 38 0.46
White (Caucasian) 7,251 87.46

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the FLANDERS surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of FLANDERS in historical publications

(origin: Local) A name given to a native of Flanders, a County or Earldom of the Low Countries, or Netherlands. It took its name either from Flandrina, the wife of Liderick II., Prince of Buc, or from Flambert, the nephew of Clodion, King of France.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.


Similar names to FLANDERS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FLANDERS.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for FLANDERS

The following words are slight variants of FLANDERS that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.