Walloon name


Since Belgium has three national languages — Dutch, [|French] and German — Belgian names are similar to those in the neighbouring countries: the Netherlands, France and Germany. Place names with a particle meaning "from" are the most numerous. An uncapitalised particle sometimes indicates nobility.
Here is for example the chronological list of Ministers-President of the Walloon Region :
NameOrigin
Jean-Maurice DehousseFrench / Walloon origin
André DamseauxFrench / Walloon origin
Melchior WatheletFrench / Walloon origin
Guy CoëmeFrench / Walloon origin
Bernard AnselmeFrench / Walloon origin
Guy SpitaelsFrench / Walloon origin, Flemish writing
Robert CollignonFrench / Walloon origin
Elio Di RupoItalian origin
Jean-Claude Van CauwenbergheFlemish origin
André AntoineFrench / Walloon origin
Rudy DemotteFlemish / French origin

For French family names among the Walloons and other francophones of Belgium, see French name.
The twenty most common French surnames in Belgium are respectively Dubois, Lambert, Dupont, Martin, Dumont, Leroy, Leclercq, Simon, Laurent, François, Denis, Renard, Thomas, Lejeune, Gérard, Petit, Mathieu, Lemaire, Charlier, and Bertrand.
Some surnames have an unclear origin, like Berger, meaning shepherd in French, and mountaineer in Dutch and German. The particle De also means From or From the in French and means The in Dutch, which does not help finding the origin.
Flemish surnames are also common, due to Flemish economic immigration from 1850 to 1950. See Flanders name.
There are also a lot of typical Walloon surnames, like Monami, Dehasse, :fr:Leo Delcroix|Delcroix, Delhaize or Donnay.
Even crossed etymologies can be found like Deflandre or Dehasse.