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The van buren Surname

van buren Name Meaning and History

Dutch and Jewish (from the Netherlands): habitational name for someone from any of the many places in the Netherlands named with Middle Dutch buur, buer ‘house’, ‘shed’, in particular Buren in Gelderland.

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Distribution of van buren Families in the US in 1920
Number of van buren families
 77-152
 26-76
 1-25
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