Family name origins & meanings
- Dutch and Belgian : unexplained; most probably a variant of Van Geen, a habitational name fron an unidentified place, possibly Gein in Jutphaas (south of Utrecht), Gene in Vreren (Belgium), or Geem in East Flanders.
- Norwegian : habitational name from any of several farmsteads named with the definite singular of vang, from Old Norse vangr ‘field’, ‘meadow’.