Given name & surname
Voorhees
“(from) before Hees”
Voorhees is a surname from Dutch.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Voorhees goes back to Dutch Hees, meaning “(from) before Hees.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Voorhees’s family of names
In English usage, Voorhees as a surname was borrowed from the Dutch form HEES. In English usage, Voorhees as a surname has a related form in VOORHEIS. In English usage, Voorhees as a surname has a related form in VOORHIES.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 4
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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