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VAN ROMPUY : Variant of VAN RUMPADE. A well-known bearer of this surname is the Flemish politician Herman Van Rompuy (1947-), a Prime Minister of Belgium.

VAN ROSSEM : Variant of VAN ROSSUM.

VAN ROSSUM : Means "from Rossum", a town in the province of Gelderland in the Netherlands which has now been merged into the municipality of Maasdriel. Rossum is m...

VAN RUMPADE : Means "from Rumpade", a place in the Netherlands. It means "wide path", derived from Middle Dutch ruum or rûme "wide, spacious" combined with pat "pa...

VAN SCHOOREL : Variant of VAN SCHOORL.

VAN SCHOORL : Means "of Schoorl", a small town in the province of Noord-Holland in the Netherlands.

VAN SCHOREL : Variant of VAN SCHOORL.

VAN TONDER : Means "from Tønder", a town in Denmark.

VAN VEEN : Variant of VAN DER VEEN.

VAN VEENEN : Variant of VAN DER VEEN.

VAN WEGBERG : Dutch variant of VON WEGBERG.

VAN WIEREN : Means "from Wieren". It originated in Friesland and other parts of the Netherlands. Wieren, the name of several towns, means "seaweed".

VAN WILLIGEN : Means "from the willows" in Dutch.

VAN'T HOUT : Variant of VAN HOUTEN.

VANCE : Means "dweller by a fen, marsh" from Old English fenn.

VANCHEV : Means "son of Vancho", Vancho being a diminutive of IVAN.

VANCURA : Derived from the given name VÁCLAV.

VANDALE : Variant of VAN DALEN.

VANDROOGENBROECK : Means "from the dry marshes" in Dutch. The city of Brussels was built on dry marshes, so this name means "from Brussels".

VANEK : Derived from Vanek, an archaic diminutive of the given name VÁCLAV.

VANEV : Means "son of Vane", Vane being a diminutive of IVAN.

VANG (1) : Place or occupational name for a person who lived or worked on a farm, from Old Norse vangr "field, meadow".

VANG (2) : Variant of WANG (4).

VANHANEN : From the Finnish word vanha meaning "old".

VANKOV : Means "son of Vanko", Vanko being a diminutive of IVAN.

VANN (1) : Means "dweller by a fen, marsh" from Old English fenn.

VANN (2) : Means "dweller by a water (a freshwater lake)" from Middle High German vann.

VANTCHEV : Variant transcription of VANCHEV.

VARANO : Locative surname, derived from one of the many towns of this name in Italy.

VARELA : Derived from Spanish vara "stick". It may have originally been given to one who used a stick in his line of work, for example an animal herder.



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