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The Germanic names are the names with the longest history in the Dutch-speaking area; they form the oldest layer of the given names known in Dutch. The Germanic names were characterised by a rich diversity, as there were many possible combinations. A Germanic name is composed of two parts, the latter of which also indicates the gender of the ...
Amsterdam Island, Spitsbergen; Amsterdam Island, Southern Indian Ocean; Bear Island, Norway; Bedloe's Island, now Liberty Island, New York-NJ, USA; Block Island ...
This random sampling of Dutch family names is sorted by family name, with the tussenvoegsel following the name after a comma. Meanings are provided where known. See Category:Dutch-language surnames and Category:Surnames of Frisian origin for surnames with their own pages. Baas – The Boss; Bakker – Baker; Beek, van – From the brook
From a Dutch family name. The first Blauvelt in America was a peasant farmer who worked on Kiliaen van Rensselaer's estate cultivating tobacco in 1638. The same Dutch family name lies at the origin of Bluefields Bay in Jamaica and Bluefields in Nicaragua – after Abraham Blauvelt, Dutch trader, explorer, pirate and privateer.
The definition of these groups as they are known today is often from the perception of the colonizing Dutch, who tended to call the existing people by the name of a location within their territory, thus creating an exonym. Both the Lenape and Dutch often named a place based on the geography or geology of the natural environment and described a ...
Pages in category "Dutch masculine given names" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 368 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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De Vries is one of the most common Dutch surnames. [1] It indicates a geographical origin: "Vriesland" is an old spelling of the Dutch province of Friesland ().Hence, "de Vries" means "the Frisian".