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Debaere

Debaere. Attested in Belgium, France, United States of America, Poland, borne by about 1,399 people in the registers this map holds.

The same name, spelt two ways

One systematic substitution — s for z, w for v, ch for h — where BOTH spellings are independently attested surnames. Kosina and Kozina are one man in two clerks' handwriting. Stronger than sounding alike, weaker than somebody having checked.

Debare

Only sounds alike

An algorithm's guess. Useful for casting a net, and not evidence.

De BaereDebaerDebereDe BaerDebaireDebarreDebaure

Where it came from

No place of this name is in the gazetteer, so this map says nothing about where the name came from. Search a surname anywhere else and you will be told an origin — that it is Latin, or Italian, or means «joyful». That is etymology, it is usually unsourced, and it is a different question from the one answered here.

Where it is borne, and where a record names it

Attested in 4 countries: Belgium, France, United States of America, PolandPoland — 2 peopleUnited States of America — 288 peopleFrance — 426 peopleBelgium — 683 people
A dot is a country, not a place. It sits at the country's centre because a national register counts a country; nothing here says where in it these people are. Blank is not absence. This draws the 4 countries where the eleven registers and eight archives behind this atlas attest the name. Most of the world has no surname register this project can read, and the ones that do and will not are listed with the reason.
Belgium, by commune. 683 people in 41 of Belgium's 565 communes, counted by Statbel. The biggest is Kortrijk with 64. This is the only country here that can be drawn this way — every other register counts a country and stops, so a blank elsewhere is a gap in what states publish, not in the name.
41 places drawn, the largest being Kortrijk, Waregem, Zwevegem, Harelbeke, Wevelgem, Brugge, Moeskroen, Avelgem, Roeselare, DeerlijkAat — 5Wingene — 5Ardooie — 5Zedelgem — 5Leuven — 5Namen — 6Kluisbergen — 6Middelkerke — 6Herent — 6Kruisem — 7Sint-Laureins — 7Ieper — 7Knokke-Heist — 7Torhout — 7Oostkamp — 8Wielsbeke — 9Kortemark — 9Deinze — 10Ingelmunster — 10Izegem — 11Staden — 12Menen — 12Wervik — 12Antwerpen — 12Nazareth-De Pinte — 13Anzegem — 14Zulte — 16Tielt — 16Kuurne — 17Gent — 19Deerlijk — 21Roeselare — 23Avelgem — 26Moeskroen — 34Brugge — 38Wevelgem — 41Harelbeke — 41Zwevegem — 47Waregem — 59Kortrijk — 64

Country by country

Each country below can carry up to three different kinds of evidence, and none of them is the same claim. A register is a head-count — a state counted these people. A record is one document naming the surname on that ground, narrower evidence and often much older. And a volume overlapping these dates is a document from the right place and years — never a document known to name this surname. None of the three ever means the name exists in that country and nowhere else, or that it exists nowhere but here.

Belgium

683 Borne — a state counted them — Family names by municipality, 1 January 2026 (Statbel, TA_POP_LST_2026).

Whose archive to write to

8,274 of 24,426 volumes held for Belgium overlap the 1600s, 1850s, 1880s, 1920s and 1950s — the decades Debaere is attested here. Too many to list, and this atlas does not know whether any one of them names Debaere. The commonest kinds: Civil registration and vital records, Cemeteries and burials. See everything this atlas holds for Belgium →

France

426 Borne — a state counted them — Fichier des noms de famille 1891–2000 (INSEE, fichier national).

Whose archive to write to

37 of 1,513 volumes held for France overlap the 1710s, 1950s, 1960s, 1980s and 1990s — the decades Debaere is attested here. None is known to name Debaere: a volume overlapping these years is a document from the right place and time, not a confirmed match. Worth an afternoon.

United States of America

288 Borne — a state counted them — Frequently Occurring Surnames from the 2010 Census; Frequently Occurring Surnames from the 2000 Census.

Whose archive to write to

This atlas has no birth-year evidence for Debaere in United States of America, so it cannot narrow United States of America's 528,875 volumes by date — see United States of America's own page for all of it.

Poland

2 Borne — a state counted them — Nazwiska występujące w rejestrze PESEL (z uwzględnieniem osób zmarłych).

Whose archive to write to

This atlas has no birth-year evidence for Debaere in Poland, so it cannot narrow Poland's 15,686 volumes by date — see Poland's own page for all of it.

When it was being born, in France

INSEE counts births by surname and decade from the état civil, 1891 to 2000 — the only dated evidence in this dataset. A name that starts at zero and climbs arrived; a name that falls to nothing left, died out, or emigrated, and the decade it stops is the decade to stop searching. It counts births registered in France, so a family that emigrated in 1900 simply stops appearing, which is information rather than a defect.

  • 1891–1900 18
  • 1901–1910 23
  • 1911–1920 30
  • 1921–1930 51
  • 1931–1940 31
  • 1941–1950 47
  • 1951–1960 44
  • 1961–1970 44
  • 1971–1980 46
  • 1981–1990 51
  • 1991–2000 41

Whose archive held that ground, and when

Every surname site can tell you a name is common somewhere. This one also knows which filing system held that ground in which years — and those are the two halves of one question: my people were called this, they were there, so who has the paper, and for which century. A name in Croatia before 1881 may sit in a military series and not a county one; a name in the Netherlands before 1811 has no civil record at all, only a baptism.

This is about the ground, not about your family. A register counting a name in a country says nothing about which village. And these are the pieces of a country this atlas has drawn, which in a large one may be a corner of it — Acadia reaches into Maine and is not a statement about the United States, and Bohemia's ground crosses into Poland. Each region's own page says which ground it covers. Where a country is missing below, nothing covers it yet.

Belgium
France
United States of America
Poland
  • Pomerania and Danzig 7 eras Duchy of Pomerania → Swedish Pomerania in the west; Brandenburg-Prussia in the east → Prussia → German Empire → …
  • Bohemia 6 eras Kingdom of Bohemia → Austria → Czechoslovakia → Sudetenland and the Reichsprotektorat → …
  • Posen — Prussian Poland 8 eras Poland → Prussia → Duchy of Warsaw → German Empire → …
  • Galicia 6 eras Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia → Poland → Austria → German and Soviet occupation → …
  • Moravia and Silesia 6 eras Margraviate of Moravia → Austria → Czechoslovakia → Reichsprotektorat Böhmen und Mähren → …
  • East Prussia 4 eras State of the Teutonic Order → Duchy, then Kingdom, of Prussia → German Empire → Russia in the north; Poland in the south; Lithuania at Memel
  • Silesia 6 eras Habsburg Bohemian crown lands → Prussia → German Empire → Divided → …
  • Congress Poland — the Russian partition 7 eras Russian Empire → Duchy of Warsaw → Kingdom of Poland, in personal union with Russia → Poland, restored → …

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