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Lorentz is a name derived from the Roman surname, Laurentius, which means "from Laurentum". It is the German form of Laurence. Notable people with the name include:
Hooft or 't Hooft is a Dutch surname meaning "(the) head". Notable people with the surname include:
Kraemer or Kræmer is a surname. Notable people with the name include:
Andriessen is a Dutch patronymic surname meaning son of Andries cognate to the surnames Andrews and Anderson. People named Andriessen or Andriesse include:
Hendrix is a patronymic surname of Dutch and Low German origin, meaning "son of Hendrik". Notable people with the surname include:
Smits is a Dutch surname that is considered a variant of the more common Smit surname. The name is an old plural of Smid (blacksmith), though the plural in modern Dutch would be Smeden.
Weidner is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Bekker was first ever mentioned in the Torah in the form of the clan of the Bekkerrites. The addition of '-rite' to a surname indicates plural or a group of people. The original ancestor to South African Bekker's left Prussia in 1644 from Königsberg. A Bekker husband and wife were sent to their deaths from Trompsø, Norway to the concentration camps, WWII. Bekker is also Dutch and Low German occupational surname, bekker is a regional form of Dutch bakker ("baker"). Notable people with the surname include:
Scholten is a surname of Dutch origin and may refer to:
Hendriks is a Dutch patronymic surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Kloosterman is a Dutch surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Van den Bos is a Dutch toponymic surname meaning "from the forest".
Zwart is a Dutch surname meaning "black". It may refer to:
Koekkoek or Koekoek is a Dutch family name. Koekoek means "cuckoo" in Dutch.
Hendrickx is a Dutch-language surname of Belgian origin. Notable people with the surname include:
Vink, Dutch for chaffinch, is a Dutch surname. It usually is a metonymic occupational surname, referring to one who catches chaffinches in a vinkenbaan, for food or entertainment. Variants of the name are De Vink and Vinck. The forms Vinke and Vinken could be of patronymic origin, as Vink/Finke was a masculine given name. People with this name include:
Klopper(s) is a Dutch surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Hendrikx is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Mol is a Dutch surname. Meaning "mole" in Dutch, it may be descriptive in origin, or metonymic for a mole catcher. The name could also be patronymic or toponymic, referring to the town Mol, Belgium in Antwerp province or a location named "the mole(s)". Among variant forms are De Mol, Demol, Moll, Mols, and Van Mol. Notable people with these surnames include:
Smidt is a surname. In many cases, it is a spelling variation of the German surname Schmidt. Notable people with the surname include:
References
- ↑ Hendriksen at the Meertens Institute database of Dutch surnames
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