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Van den Heuvel is a Dutch toponymic surname meaning "from the hill". In the Netherlands 20,583 people carried the name in 2007, making it the 31st most common surname. The name is sometimes concatenated as vanden Heuvel or VandenHeuvel. Notable people with the surname include:
Van der Pol is a Dutch, toponymic surname, originally meaning "from the raised land". Notable people with the surname include:
Van den Brink is a Dutch toponymic surname meaning "from the village center". The name is quite common, particularly in the Veluwe region, with 13,185 people in the Netherlands in 2007. People with this surname include:
Hout, van Hout and van den Hout are Dutch surnames meaning "wood", "timber" or "of the wood". Notable people with the surname include:
Van der Ham or Van den Ham is a Dutch toponymic surname meaning "from the ham". The Dutch word ham only survives in place names and used to refer to alluvial land in a curve of a river. Several places exist with the name Ham or Den Ham so that the surname, especially in the form Van Ham, could refer to a specific location. Notable people with the surname include:
Van Acker a Dutch toponymic surname meaning "from (the) farmland". It is common in East Flanders and Zeelandic Flanders, while the agglutinated form Vanacker is more common in the province of West Flanders. Notable people with the surname include:
Van den Hoek is a Dutch toponymic surname meaning "from the corner". Variations on the name include Van Hoek, Van der Hoek, Van den Hoeck, Van den Hoecke, and concatenated forms of these. The surname Verhoek is a contraction of "Van der Hoek". People with these surnames include:
Van der Kolk is a Dutch toponymic surname, meaning "from/of the kolk". The surname Van der Wiel has a same origin. It could also have referred to a specific settlement or water named De Kolk. People with the surname include:
Van der Velden is a Dutch toponymic surname meaning "from the fields". In 2007, there were over 10,000 people with this name in The Netherlands. Among variations on this name are Vandervelden, Vander Velden, Van de Velden, Van den Velden, Van der Velde, Van de Velde, Vandervelde, Vandevelde, and Van Velden. Notable people with the surname include:
Van de Ende, van den Ende, van der Ende, Vander Ende are forms of a Dutch toponymic surnames, meaning "from the end" .Ende is an old Dutch word for "Duck"the coat of arms shows three white ducks on a blue background. It is most common in the province of South Holland. Notable people with the surname include:
Van de Ven, Van der Ven and Vandeven are toponymic surnames of Dutch origin. The original bearer may have lived or worked near a ven, a Dutch term for a small lake, like fen derived from the Proto-Germanic fanją. Van der Plas and Van der Poel are equivalent Dutch surnames. The name can be found as early as the first part of the 14th century in Oirschot. The name is quite common in the Netherlands, ranking 41st in 2007. People with this surname include:
Van den Spiegel, Van de Spiegel or Van der Spiegel is a surname. Literally meaning "from the mirror", it is thought to usually refer to the home of a mirror maker. Notable people with the surname include:
Van 't Hof and Van 't Hoff are Dutch toponymic surnames meaning "from the homestead". Other variants are Van Hoff, Van den Hof, Van der Hoff, Van't Hof and Vanthof. Notable people with these surnames include:
Van der Heide is a Dutch toponymic surname meaning "from the heath". The surnames Van der Heijden and Verheijen have the same origin. People with this surname include:
Arend and Arent are primarily Low German patronymic surnames from the given name Arend. The Dutch surnames "Van den Arend" and "Den Arend" means "(from) the eagle" and have a toponymic origin. Notable people with the surname include:
Boom is a Dutch surname meaning "tree". It and the form De Boom can be of metaphoric origin, indicating a robust person. Alternatively it may be a shortened version of names like Van der Boom or Ten Boom, meaning from/at the tree, boom barrier or warp beam. "Boom" is also regularly chosen as a surname in stage names. People with the name include:
Van de Stadt is a Dutch surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Van den Herik is a Dutch toponymic surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Koos is a Dutch and Afrikaans short form (hypocorism) of the given name Jacobus and a surname. People with this name include:
Van de Sande is a Dutch toponymic surname meaning "from the sand". The name could for example have originated from any of the settlements in the Low Countries named 't Zand. People with the surname include:
References
- ↑ Akker, van den at the Database of Surnames in The Netherlands.
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