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The surname Vanderveer

A Dutch surname, carried by 1,440 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex V536

Vanderveer: #18,950 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Vanderveer #18,950, 1,440 people Vanderveer: #18,950 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Vanderveer #18,950, 1,440 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Vanderveer is more common than 88.3% of them.

Origin

Dutch origin

Borrowed from Dutch van der Veer.

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 1,440 people named Vanderveer in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 214,407 Americans. That is down 1.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,454.

#18,950
rank among US surnames
1,440
people in 2010
0.5
per 100,000 Americans
-1%
change since 2000 (was #17,763)

Who is named Vanderveer

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

90% of people named Vanderveer identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.3% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

  • White (not Hispanic) 90%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 4.3%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.2%
  • Two or more races 1.8%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

  • Vandeveer

Surnames that sound like Vanderveer

Vanderveer 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 Vanderveer come from?
Borrowed from Dutch van der Veer.
How common is the surname Vanderveer?
1,440 people in the United States had the surname Vanderveer in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 214,407 Americans. It ranked 18,950th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Vanderveer?
In the 2010 Census, 90% of people named Vanderveer identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.3% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Vanderveer getting more or less common?
Less common. 1,454 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,440 in 2010, down 1.0%.
What are other spellings of Vanderveer?
Vandeveer.