# Vliet (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/vliet/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname from Dutch.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | Dutch |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 655 |
| US rank (2010) | 34,539 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 471,367 people |
| Change since 2000 | +6.0% (618 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch Vliet, topographic surname for someone who lived by a brook, from vliet (“brook”).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Vliet in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 95% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 1.7% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 1.1% |
| Two or more races | 1.7% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Vliet in the United States.

## People named Vliet

- Captain Beefheart, American musician and painter (1941-2010)

## Similar surnames

Violette, Violet, Villeda, Valletta.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.