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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 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 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 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.