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VAN DEN ANDEL : Variant of VAN ANDEL.

VAN DENEND : From Dutch van meaning "from" and denend meaning "the end". This means the family originated at the end of something, most likely a road.

VAN DER AART : Means "from the earth", perhaps referring to an earth bank or a farmer.

VAN DER AS : Variant of VAN AS.

VAN DER BEEK : Means "from the creek" in Dutch.

VAN DER BERG : Means "from the mountain" in Dutch, van meaning "from", der meaning "the", and berg meaning "mountain". In the Dutch case, since it is a very flat cou...

VAN DER HOUT : Variant of VAN HOUTEN.

VAN DER LAAR : Variant of VAN LAAR.

VAN DER SEE : Variant of VAN DER ZEE.

VAN DER STOEP : Means "from the stoep (a slope up to a dike)". The name belonged to people living near such an entrance.

VAN DER VEEN : Means "from the peat". It indicates that the first bearers resided in a peat district or fen colony. The Dutch word for peat, veen, comes from Old Ger...

VAN DER VEN : Variant of VAN DER VEEN.

VAN DER VENN : Variant of VAN DER VEEN.

VAN DER VENNE : Variant of VAN DER VEEN.

VAN DER VENNEN : Variant of VAN DER VEEN.

VAN DER ZEE : Means "from the sea". The original bearer may have been someone who lived on the coast. Alternatively, it could be that the first bearer was a sailor ...

VAN DONK : Means "from the hill" in Dutch, donk being the Old Dutch word for "hill", so the original bearer lived on a hill.

VAN HAANRAADS : Variant of VAN HAANRADE.

VAN HAANRAATS : Variant of VAN HAANRADE.

VAN HAANRADE : Means "from Haanrade", a small village in the south of the province of Limburg in the Netherlands.

VAN HAANRATH : Variant of VAN HAANRADE.

VAN HAENRAATS : Variant of VAN HAANRADE.

VAN HAENRAETS : Variant of VAN HAANRADE.

VAN HANRAETS : Variant of VAN HAANRADE.

VAN HASSEL : Means "from Hassel", a town in Lower Saxony, Germany. It may mean "place where hazel trees grow" from the Germanic hasel, hassel.

VAN HAUTUM : Variant of VAN HOUTUM.

VAN HEEL : Means "from Heel", a small town in the middle of the province of Limburg in the Netherlands.

VAN HERTEN : Means "from Herten", a small town in the middle of the province of Limburg in the Netherlands. It comes from the word herten, which is the plural form...

VAN HOFWEGEN : Means "from Hofwegen", a town in the province of South Holland in the Netherlands. The town is now part of the municipality of Molenwaard.

VAN HORN : Means "from Hoorn", a town in the Netherlands.



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