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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch and Belgian (Van der Beek) : habitational name for someone from any of various places in Belgium and the Netherlands named Terbeek, Beek, or (Ter) Beke, from beke ‘stream’, ‘creek’, or a topographic name from this word.

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