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Kuiper is a Dutch occupational surname meaning cooper. Common spelling variants include Kuyper, Kuipers, Kuijper, Kuijpers, Kuypers, and De Kuyper. Notable people with the name 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.
Veldhuizen may refer to:
Kuipers is a Dutch occupational surname meaning cooper's. Common spelling variants include Kuiper, Kuijpers, and Kuypers. Notable people with the surname include:
Kuperus and Cuperus are Latinized versions of the common Dutch surname Kuiper meaning cooper. This process was most common in the province of Friesland. One family changed the spelling from Cuperus to Couperus in the 19th century.
Blaauw is a Dutch surname. It is an archaic spelling of modern Dutch blauw, meaning blue. This may have referred to the pale skin, the eyes, or the clothes of the original bearer of the name or the surname may be metonymic, e.g. referring to a dyer or someone who produced bluing in a mill. People with this name include:
Verhagen is a Dutch-language toponymic surname. It is a contraction of Van der Hagen, meaning "from/of the haag. A haag was a bushland, hedged lot, or (private) hunting ground. The name could also specifically refer to an origin in The Hague. Some variant spellings of the name are Verhaagen, Verhaegen, Verhaeghe, Verhaeghen, Verhage, and Verhaghen. People with the name include:
Heinen is a Dutch and Low German patronymic surname meaning "son of Hein". Notable people with the surname include:
Verheijen is a Dutch toponymic surname. It is a contraction of the surname Van der Heijden, meaning "from the heath". People with this surname include:
Bouwmeester is a Dutch occupational surname meaning "master builder". Variant forms are Boumeester, Bouwmeesters, and Bouwmeister. Notable people with the surname include:
de Zwart is a Dutch surname, meaning "the black (one)", usually having referred to dark hair. Variant forms include De Swart, De Swarte and De Zwarte. People with these names include:
Theeuwes is a Dutch patronymic surname. Theeuw, Teeuwes, Tewis, Theeuwis etc. are archaic short forms of the given name Matthew/Mattheus. The surname has many variant forms, including Teeuwen and Tewes. Notable people with the surname include:
Meuleman is a Dutch surname meaning "mill man". It originally could have referred to a miller or to someone who lived near a wind or water mill. Among variant forms are Meulemans, Meulman(s) and Moleman(s). People with this name include:
Gijsen is a Dutch patronymic surname meaning "Gijs' son". Among variant forms are Geijssen, Geysen, Ghijsen, Giesen, and Gijzen. Notable people with the surname include:
Teeuwen is a Dutch patronymic surname. Teeuw, Teeuwes, Tewis, Theeuwis etc. are archaic short forms of the given name Matthew/Mattheus. The surname has many variant forms, including Tewes and Theeuwes. People with the surname include.
Möhlmann or Moehlmann is a German surname literally meaning someone who worked or lived at a mill. Variants: Mollmann, de:Möllmann, Mohlman, etc.
Wesseling and its variant Wesselink are Dutch toponymic surname. There were great number of farms named Wesseling or Wesselink in the east of the Netherlands, reflecting that they once belonged to a person named Wessel. There also is a town named Wesseling in Germany. People with this surname or its variants include:
Bouwens is a Dutch patronymic surname meaning "Bouwe's son". Bouwe is a short form of the given name Boudewijn. Variant forms are Bauwens, Boudens, Bouwen, Bouwense and Bouwes. People with the surname include:
Dijkhuizen is a Dutch toponymic surname meaning "houses on the dike". Among variant forms are Dijkhuijsen, Dijkhuis (singular) and Dykhuizen. People with this name include:
Broeker is a Low German surname. It may be derived from the personal name Broekaert or be a habitational name for a person living in a marsh. Notable people with the surname include:
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