Frequency of family names in 2006

The government published the lists of the most frequent family names in Belgium for 2006.

Peeters, Janssens and Maes are the most common names in Belgium and in Flanders. In Wallonia the most frequent names are Dubois, Lambert and Martin. But the most common name in Wallonia, Dubois, is 13d in Belgium as a whole.

There were 32.811 Peeters, 30.453 Janssens and 25.519 Maes in Belgium as a whole.

In Belgium Timmermans is the 53d most common name (6.685 people) ; in Brussels it is 36th (508 people) ; in Flanders 63d (5.051 people) and in Wallonia it has no place in the first 100.

Source : FOD Economie - Algemene Directie Statistiek en Economische Informatie, Bevolkingsstatistieken.
http://www.statbel.fgov.be/figures/d21a_nl.asp