Schouten Family Name and Heraldry

Begin with the numbers and the Schouten surname comes into focus. Schouten is catalogued in Wikidata as a German last name.

• According to the 2010 US Census, the Schouten surname had 1,208 bearers. 115 people born in France between 1891 and 2000 carried the Schouten name at birth.
• Standard surname dictionaries do not settle the origin of Schouten, so we research it family by family rather than guess.
• Local archives often hold baptisms and marriages that never reached online indexes.

Family crest and blazon

A coat of arms was granted to a particular family line, not to everyone named Schouten, so a shared surname is a clue rather than a claim to the arms. For the full story, order the Schouten surname pack.