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Surnames, their origin and their meaning

Many surnames are associated with the place/locality of where the family lived and in those cases the location is noted as the meaning.
Many surnames are associated with the occupation of the person given the name.

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Surname		Origin	Meaning
Adlar		Dutch	Adelaar, an eagle
Ampte		Dutch	Ampt, an official situation
Bachelor		Dutch	Bock, a book, and leeraar, a doctor of divinity, law, or physic
Barber		Dutch	Bock, a book, and leeraar, a doctor of divinity, law, or physic
Barcula		Dutch	Borkulo, a town in Holland
Barculo		Dutch	Borkulo, a town in Holland
Barhydt		Dutch	Barheid, sharpness, roughness, severity
Bleeker		Dutch	a bleacher or whitener of linen
Blood		Dutch	timorous, cowardly
Bock		Dutch	book
Bogart		Dutch	boomgard, an orchard
Breed		Dutch	broad, large
Brill		Dutch	Bril, a neat city in tho Netherlands
Brinkerhoff		Dutch	Brengerhof, messenger of the court, or head messenger or carrier
Britte		Dutch	Brittainer
Brower		Dutch	brewer
Buckhout		Dutch	beuk, a beech, and houdt, a wood
Burbeck		Dutch	Burh, a hill, and bek, a point, a beak
Burrard		Dutch	Boer, a rustic, a farmer, and ard, nature, mode, kind
Bushnell		Dutch	Bossen-hall, a faggot or wood-market, or a hall or mansion in the wood
Buskirk		Dutch	Bos, a wood, and kerk, a church
DeGraff		Dutch	De Graaf, the count or earl, the great
DeGroot		Dutch	The great, tall, large man
Devenpeck		Dutch	Diepen, deep, and beck, a brook
Manser		Dutch	Mansoir, a male issue, a boy
Mesick		Dutch	Maesyck, a town on the river Maes, in the bishopric of Liege, Netherlands
Metternich		Dutch	Metter, middle or in, and naght, night
Moers		Dutch	fen, marsh, or moor
Molen		Dutch	A mill
Onderdonk		Dutch	Under grace or pardon
Osterhoudt		Dutch	The east wood, from oost or oster, east, and houdt, a wood
Ostrander		Dutch	The lord of the east shore
Oudekirk		Dutch	town in Holland
Outhoudt		Dutch	The old wood
Dorlan		Dutch	Dor, sterile, barren, and land
Dorland		Dutch	Dor, sterile, barren, and land
Putnam		Dutch	From Put or Putten, a well, and ham, a house or town
Quackenboss		Dutch	Quickenbosch, a thicket, a grove of roan-tree, mountain-ash, a species of service-tree
Ray		Dutch	Roemur, one who extols, praises, boasts
Raymer		Dutch	Roemur, one who extols, praises, boasts
Reinhart		Dutch	A pure heart
Rhefeldt		Dutch	deer-field
Ring		Dutch	A Canton; a district of an ecclesiastical congregation
Roemer		Dutch	From Roem, glory, renown; a praiser, a boaster
Roorback		Dutch	A town in Bavaria, Germany
Roseveldt		Dutch	field of roses
Rutgers		Dutch	one desirous of rest, a keeper of rest
Saxe		Dutch	Saxon
Schaffer		Dutch	He that dishes up or provides victuals
Schermerhorn		Dutch	Shermer, a fencer, and hoorn, a horn
Schoonhoven		Dutch	town in South Holland
Schoonmaker		Dutch	Schoenmaker, a shoe-maker
Schuyler		Dutch	Van Schuyler, from the place of shelter
Scranton		Dutch	From schrantsen, to tear, seize, or break
Shuck		Dutch	twelve or a dozen, and is applied to sheaves in a harvest field
Sleeper		Dutch	A cartman, or one who carries goods on a sledge
Snell		Dutch	Snel, agile, swift nimble
Snow		Dutch	Snoo, cunning, subtle, crafty, sly
Spiegel		Dutch	looking-glass
Spoor		Dutch	spur
Sprague		Dutch	speech
Staats		Dutch	Eustace, or Eustatius
Closson		Dutch	son of Klaas
Clute		Dutch	Kluit, a lamp
Clutterbuck		Dutch	klateren, to clatter + beek, a brook
Coeyman		Dutch	cow-man
Cole		Dutch	Nicholas
Fell		Dutch	fierce, furious, violent
Flack		Dutch	Vlak,flat, low ground
Sutphen		Dutch	the city of Zutphen, in Germany
Swartwout		Dutch	Zwart, black, and woud, a wood.
Swits		Dutch	A Swiss, a native of Switzerland
Tenbrook		Dutch	Ten, at, and broek, a brook, a stream, or marsh
Teneyck		Dutch	Ten oaks
Terwilliger		Dutch	Der Willikeur, a by-law, a statute
Tice		Dutch	abbreviation of Matthias
Valk		Dutch	A hawk, a falcon
VanCortlandt		Dutch	From the short land; kort, short, and landt, land
VanCuren		Dutch	From the territory of an elector in Germany
Vandenburgh		Dutch	From the hill
Vandenhoff		Dutch	From the garden;
Vanderbilt		Dutch	Byltye, a little hatchet or bill
Vanderbogart		Dutch	From the orchard
Vandermark		Dutch	From the Mark
Vanderspeigle		Dutch	From the looking-glass
Vanderveer		Dutch	From the ferry
Vanderwerken		Dutch	From the workers
Vanderzee		Dutch	From the sea
VanDousen		Dutch	town of Doesen, in Lower Saxony
VanDuzen		Dutch	town of Doesen, in Lower Saxony
VanDyck		Dutch	From the dyke
VanKeuren		Dutch	From the territory of an elector in Germany
VanSchoonhoven		Dutch	town of Schoonhoven, in South Holland
VanSteinburgh		Dutch	stone-hill
VanTassel		Dutch	Tessel or Texel, an island in North Holland
VanTessel		Dutch	Tessel or Texel, an island in North Holland
VanVechten		Dutch	Vechten, on the river Vecht, in Holland
VanVleck		Dutch	town of Vleck, in Holland
VanVranken		Dutch	Frankenburgh, an old town of the Franki
VanZant		Dutch	Zante, an island in the Mediterranean
Vedder		Dutch	Father, or literally begetter, feeder
Veeder		Dutch	Father, or literally begetter, feeder
Verbeck		Dutch	From ver, far, distant, and beek or beck, brook
Vogel		Dutch	A bird, a duck
Voores		Dutch	From voorhuis, the fore-room of a house below, a hall
Voorhees		Dutch	From voorhuis, the fore-room of a house below, a hall
Vrooman		Dutch	From vroom, honest, valiant, religious
Wade		Dutch	meadow or pasture
Weidman		Dutch	Weid, a pasture or meadow, and man,--a herdsman
Wendell		Dutch	a walker
Westerveldt		Dutch	west field
Wetherwax		Dutch	a herdsman, and wacht, a watch, a guard; weide, a pasture, a meadow
Wimple		Dutch	A streamer, pendant
Winchel		Dutch	From Winschaal, a wine-bowl, a wineshop
Winegar		Dutch	A town in Berkshire, England
Winekoop		Dutch	Something to drink upon the bargain
Colver		Dutch	kolver, one who plays at kolf, a favorite game in Holland
Comstock		Dutch	kom, a dock or harbor, and stock, a stick or timber
Conklin		Dutch	Con, bold, wise, knowing, and klein, little or son
Costar		Dutch	koster, a sexton
Coster		Dutch	koster, a sexton
Courtlandt		Dutch	kort, short, little, and land or landt
Freiot		Dutch	Fraaiheid, signifies prettiness, neatness
Fulke		Dutch	Valk, a hawk
Ganesvoort		Dutch	From Gans, a goose, and voort, advanced, forward
Groat		Dutch	town in Holland
Groesbeck		Dutch	Groesbeck in Holland
Groot		Dutch	town in Holland
Hacker		Dutch	From Gwyn, white
Hagadorn		Dutch	Hawthorn
Halse		Dutch	Hals, the neck, a narrow tract of land, projecting from the main body
Hodd		Dutch	Houdt, a wood
Hoffman		Dutch	Hoofdman, a captain, a director, head or chief man
Hogarth		Dutch	hoogh, high, and aerd, nature or disposition
Holt		Dutch	Hultz, a wood
Witter		Dutch	A whitener, a fuller, bleacher
Wyman		Dutch	From Weiman, a huntsman, a hunter
Crounse		Dutch	kruin, the top or crown
Cure		Dutch	Keur, an elector
Dag		Dutch	Day
Hoogaboom		Dutch	Hoog, high, and boom, tree
Hoogstraten		Dutch	High-street
Hough		Dutch	Hoch, Hoog, and How, high
Houghtailing		Dutch	Hoofd, head or chief, and telling, counting
Keese		Dutch	Cornelius
Kempster		Dutch	kampen, to fight, or kamper, a champion
Kimberley		Dutch	a champion, a fightingman
Knickerbacker		Dutch	Cracker-baker
Landseer		Dutch	Landsheer, a lord of the manor
Lansing		Dutch	Low, flat lands
Ludbrock		Dutch	Leather or hairy breeches
Lusher		Dutch	Lauscher, a hider, a skulker

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