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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch and Belgian (van de Veer(e)) : from Middle Dutch vēre ‘ferry’, topographic name for someone who lived by a ferry, occupational name for a ferryman, or habitational name from any of numerous places in the Netherlands and Flanders named with this word.

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