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VALDEZ Spanish Means "son of Valdo", which is derived from the Germanic element bald meaning "brave". VAN ACHTHOVEN Dutch Denotes a person hailing from any of the various places bearing the name Achthoven. VAN AGGELEN Dutch Means "from Aggelen", the place Aggelen could be Achel in the Belgian province Limburg or Echel in the Dutch province Limburg. VAN AGTEREN Dutch Means "from behind", probably referring to a place behind something, like a church or other building or a place at the end of the road. VAN DER BERG Dutch Means "from the mountain" in Dutch, van meaning "from", der meaning "the", berg meaning "mountain"... [more] VAN DER STOEP Dutch A stoep or stoup is the slope up to a dike, so the name originates from people living near such an entrance, since van der means "from". VANG (1) Norwegian Place or occupational name for a person who lived or worked on a farm, from Old Norse vangr "field, meadow". VAN MIDDELBURG Dutch Place name for someone from various places called Middelburg in the Netherlands. VANN (2) Dutch, German Means "dweller by a water (a freshwater lake)" from the Middle High German vann. VAN ROMPU Dutch Variant of VAN ROMPUY, though one could also say that it is also a variant of VAN ROMPA... [more] VARGAS Spanish, Portuguese Topographic name meaning "hut", "slope", or "pastureland" in Spanish and Portuguese dialects. VASS Hungarian Derived from the old Hungarian term vass meaning "iron", referring to a worker in iron, a miner of iron core or a vendor of goods so manufactured... [more] VELA (1) Spanish Derived from a medieval given name Vela which was a reduced form of the Germanic name Vigila which is derived from the element wig "war". VENETIANER German, Italian, Jewish Probably one of the few surnames with an unique known ancestor - Alexsandor Vinazie, a Jewish man who possibly emigrated from Venice to the town of Liptovsky Mikulas in a region which today is known as the Slovak Republic... [more] VENTIMIGLIA Italian From the name of a historical Italian city, Ventimiglia, now near the French border. VENTURA Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Catalan From the Italian given name BONAVENTURA and the Spanish form BUENAVENTURA. VERNON English Locational name in the Eure region of Normandy, from the Gaulish element vern "alder (tree)" with the genitive case maker -onis making it "place of the alders". VERONA Italian From the name of the city of Verona, one of the most important historical cities of northern Italy. VICO Italian From the name of many villages in Italy, their names all derived from Latin vicus "town". VICTOR Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish Derived from the male given name VICTOR. VILLALOBOS Spanish Denoted a person from Villalobos, a city in Spain which derives its name from Spanish villa "town" and lobo "wolf". VILLANUEVA Spanish Means "(dweller in a) new settlement" from the Spanish villa "settlement" and nueva "new". VILLENEUVE French Means "(dweller in a) new settlement" from French ville "settlement" and neuve "new". VINCENT (2) Irish Name adopted by the Irish as an English equivalent of Gaelic Mac Dhuibhinse "son of the dark man of the island". VINCI (1) Italian From the given name VINCENTE, or from other old compound names that began with Vinci-, such as Vinciguerra, Vinciprova, or Vincimala. VINCI (2) Italian Locative surname from Vinci near Florence, the native village of Leonardo da Vinci. VIVAS Catalan Means "may you live" from the Latin, Catalan and Spanish expression vivas which was bestowed upon children to bring good luck. VOCLAIN French Alteration of the name Vauclain, which is a variant of Vauquelin, possibly derived from the Norman-French name Walkelin or Wakelin, meaning "the son of Wakling" or "the wealthy one". VOGT German From the Middle High German occupational name voget, vogt, voit meaning "overseer, bailiff, lawyer". VOLLAN Norwegian From the Old Norse word völlr (see VOLL (1)), originally given to someone who lived near a farmstead. VOLTOLINI Italian From the important alpine valley of Lombardy called Valtellina, near Lake Como... [more] VON GRIMMELSHAUSEN German Means "from Grimmel's houses", from von meaning "from"; Grimmel, a name or place, alternatively a word of uncertain meaning; and hausen, the plural of the word for "house". VON INGERSLEBEN German Originally indicated a person from Ingersleben, Germany, which means "INGE's village". VONNEGUT German Possibly means "(dweller by the) good hunting track" from the Germanic vonn "hunting track" and gut "good". VOSSEN Dutch From the given name Vos, which comes from the Frisian name Fos, which is from Old Germanic given names beginning with the element folk meaning "people". VROOM Dutch, Flemish Derived from the given name Frumoldus, which comes from Old German fruma-walda, which means "benefit" and "ruler with advantage". |
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