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The surname Vanderburg

A Dutch surname, carried by 1,883 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex V536

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Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Vanderburg is more common than 90.4% of them.

Origin

Dutch origin

Dutch van (“of”) + der (“the”) + burg (“fort”).

One of 167 Dutch surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,883 people named Vanderburg in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 163,965 Americans. That is up 11% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,690.

#15,541
rank among US surnames
1,883
people in 2010
0.6
per 100,000 Americans
+11.4%
change since 2000 (was #15,815)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#15,533Kadlec1,884163,878
#15,541Pomerantz1,883163,965
#15,546Weldy1,882164,052

Who is named Vanderburg

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

86% of people named Vanderburg identified as white (not Hispanic), 6.2% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.6% as two or more races.

  • White (not Hispanic) 86%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 6.2%
  • Two or more races 2.6%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.3%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 2.2%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.0%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Vanderburg

Vanderburg has the Soundex code V536, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code V536.

Other Dutch surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Vanderburg come from?
Dutch van (“of”) + der (“the”) + burg (“fort”).
How common is the surname Vanderburg?
1,883 people in the United States had the surname Vanderburg in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 163,965 Americans. It ranked 15,541st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Vanderburg?
In the 2010 Census, 86% of people named Vanderburg identified as white (not Hispanic), and 6.2% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Vanderburg getting more or less common?
More common. 1,690 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,883 in 2010, up 11%.