Given name & surname

Vanderwaals

Vanderwaals is a surname from Dutch.

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Vanderwaals comes from Dutch.

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How it developed

From Dutch van der Waals.

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Vanderwaals’s family of names

In English usage, Vanderwaals as a surname has a related form in van der Waals. In English usage, Vanderwaals as a surname has a conventional equivalent in the Dutch form van der Waals. In English usage, Vanderwaals as a surname was borrowed from the Dutch form van der Waals.

Walk Vanderwaals’s family in the name graph

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Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.

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Around the world

Vanderwaals has relatives in 4 languages. Lines run from its Dutch roots to each of them.

Dutch

Dutchwhere Vanderwaals comes from · 1 name

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Nicknames & forms 3

Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.

Across languages 1

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

See also 4

Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.

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“from the pool”

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