De Jong (86,534 in 2007) De Jong literally means The Young. This change occurred at different periods in different regions.
It's interesting to note that about 4.6% of all Danes living in Denmark today have the Jensen surname and about 1/3 of the entire population of Denmark carries one of the top 15 surnames from this list. Jan's son Willem would be known as Willem Jans/Jansz/Janszoon or something similar. This database includes 24,163 records of survivors accounted for as "Dutch" survivors. Dutch Given Name Database. The Dutch or British flag in the upper left corner lets you switch between the two. Jan's daughter Grietje would use the surname Jans or Jansdr. Surnames only arose when families decided they were going to stick to a 'pseudo-surname''. More than 5% of the people in the Netherlands had one of these ten last names. Prior to the introduction of surnames, the Dutch used a system of patronymics - the surname of the child reflected the first name of the father - similar to the system used in the Scandinavian countries.

The origin of your Dutch surname The Meertens Institute is an institute that researches Dutch language and culture. Also included are about 110,000 family names registered at the census from 1947. They are also doing research into the origins and development of surnames in the Netherlands, and have published a large database of surnames and their meanings and origins. Dutch Last Names Though many Dutch names have a significant origin, others translate to rather hilarious terms. Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to "develop" often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling. The new database is the complement of the Dutch Family Name Bank. That database has information on family names, the new database has information on given names. The following list of the most commonly occurring Danish surnames includes details on each last name's origin and meaning. Surnames became necessary when governments introduced personal taxation. This means that if you want to find your Dutch surname in a Dutch database or official record, you need to type it without the prefix. The most common Dutch surnames in the Netherlands (as of 1947) and Flanders in Belgium are listed to the right.
Surname Database This Database of Surnames in the Netherlands presents the 300,000 surnames of all persons with the Dutch nationality, who lived in the Netherlands in the year 2007. When Napoleon and the French occupied the Netherlands, they required the Dutch to create surnames for taxation and census purposes. The most common Dutch names in Belgium are nearly all patronymic "father-based" names in which they are composed with …