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    The surname Vliet

    A Dutch place surname, carried by 655 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex V430

    Vliet: #34,539 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Vliet #34,539, 655 people Vliet: #34,539 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Vliet #34,539, 655 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Vliet is more common than 78.7% of them.

    Origin

    Dutch origin

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

    Vliet is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    One of 167 Dutch surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 655 people named Vliet in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 471,367 Americans. That is up 6.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 618.

    #34,539
    rank among US surnames
    655
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +6%
    change since 2000 (was #34,630)

    Who is named Vliet

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    95% of people named Vliet identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.7% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 95%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.7%
    • Two or more races 1.7%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.1%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Famous Vliets

    1 notable person on Wikidata, most written-about first

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

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Vliet

    Vliet has the Soundex code V430, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code V430.

    Other Dutch surnames

    All 167 Dutch surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Vliet come from?
    Borrowed from Dutch Vliet, topographic surname for someone who lived by a brook, from vliet (“brook”).
    How common is the surname Vliet?
    655 people in the United States had the surname Vliet in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 471,367 Americans. It ranked 34,539th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Vliet?
    In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Vliet identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Who is the most famous person named Vliet?
    Captain Beefheart, American musician and painter (1941-2010).
    Where is the surname Vliet most common?
    Wikidata records people named Vliet in the United States.
    What type of surname is Vliet?
    Vliet is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Vliet getting more or less common?
    More common. 618 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 655 in 2010, up 6.0%.