# Vandiver (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/vandiver/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname from Dutch.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | Dutch |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 6,263 |
| US rank (2010) | 5,551 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 49,297 people |
| Change since 2000 | +5.0% (5,965 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

Americanized form of Dutch van Duiver, a habitational surname for someone from Duiven.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Vandiver in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 86% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 7.6% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 1.9% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.2% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 2.3% |
| Two or more races | 1.7% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Vandiver in the United States.

## People named Vandiver

- Harry Vandiver, American mathematician (1882–1973)
- Ernest Vandiver, American politician from Georgia (1918–2005)

## Similar surnames

Vandever, Vandeventer, Vandevelde.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.