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- ↑ Instituut, Meertens. "NVB : voornaam Kees". Welkom bij het Meertens Instituut (in Dutch). Retrieved 2018-12-18.
- ↑ van Osta, Ward (2012). Met naam en toenaam: voornamen, familienamen en bekende merknamen (in Dutch). Antwerpen/Apeldoorn: Garant. pp. 46–47. ISBN 978-90-441-2931-1. OCLC 803366714 . Retrieved 2018-12-18.
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... In Dutch, Cees/Kees was (and is) a common derivation of Cornelus, Cornelis, and Cornelius.
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