The vanderbilt Surname
vanderbilt Name Meaning and History
Dutch (Van der Bilt) and North German: topographic name for
someone living by a low hill, from Middle Low German bulte
‘mound’, ‘low hill’. De Bilt is the name of an area just northeast of
Utrecht.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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