| van Dam | |
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| Etymology | "of the dam" or "of the water" |
| Place of origin | Dutch (c. 1275 in Amsterdam, Netherlands)[1] |
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van Dam ("of the dam" or "of the water") is a Dutch toponymic surname. van is akin to the German nobility von and English House of, while Dam derives its name from the dam in Amsterdam, Netherlands' capital and most populated city.
In some cases, especially when processed by English speaking people, the name developed into the derivative, "VanDam."
Places
- Amsterdam, Netherlands' capital and most populated city, founded c. 1275
- Dam Square, dam and town square in the Netherlands, founded c. 1275
- The New Netherlanders founded New Amsterdam and New Netherland in 1609, via the Halve Maen (English: "Half Moon") ship to modern-day New York Bay,[3] which preceded the Pilgrims sailing attempt before reaching Cape Cod, Massachusetts in 1620[4] and English colonizers re-naming the land to New York City in 1665.
- Fort Amsterdam, the center of trade and administrative headquarters for the Dutch on the southern tip of Manhattan Island at the confluence of the Hudson and East rivers, established 1625
- The historic Vandam Street in the Charlton-King-Vandam Historic District in Greenwich Village, New York City, dedicated in 1966.
- Vandam, a village in Azerbaijan
People
- Andries van Dam (b. 1930), Dutch-born American computer scientist
- Carlo van Dam (b. 1986), Dutch racing driver
- Cornelis Van Dam (b. 1946), Canadian Old Testament scholar
- Cornelis P. G. van Dam (b. 1954), Professor of Mechanical & Aerospace Engr., University of California, Davis
- Danielle van Dam (1994-2002), American murder victim
- Dave Van Dam, American voice impressionist
- Douwe Casparus van Dam (1827–1898), Dutch naturalist, explorer and museum curator
- Jan Albertsz van Dam (1670-1746), Dutch mathematician and astronomer
- Johannes van Dam (1946–2013), Dutch journalist and food writer
- José van Dam (b. 1940), Belgian bass-baritone
- Joseph Van Dam (1901-1986), Belgian road cyclist
- Lex van Dam (b. 1968), Dutch hedge fund manager
- Lloyd van Dams (b. 1972), Dutch–Surinamese kickboxer
- Luc van Dam (1920-1976), Dutch boxer
- Marcel van Dam (b. 1938), Dutch sociologist, politician and television presenter
- Marinus van Dam (1929-1997), Dutch-born American inventor of the jelly belly bean and founder of Marich Confectionery[5]
- Martijn van Dam (b. 1978), Dutch engineer and politician
- Max van Dam (1910–1943), Dutch painter
- Nicolette van Dam (b. 1984), Dutch actress
- Nikolaos van Dam (b. 1945), Dutch diplomat and Middle East expert
- Paul Van Dam (born 1937), Utah politician
- Rijk van Dam (born 1952), Dutch politician
- Rip Van Dam (c.1660-1749), New York Province politician
- Rob Van Dam (b. 1970), American professional wrestler
- Stephan Van Dam (b. 1959), American cartographer, graphic designer, information architect, and owner of NYC map publisher, vanDam.com which publishes the patented pop-up maps (or unfolds) and HistoryMapped
- Thijs van Dam (b, 1997), Dutch field hockey player
- Tonie van Dam (b. 1960), American geophysicist and geodesist
Derivatives
The forms VanDam, Vandam, Vandamm, and Vandamme are often indicative of a family of Dutch or Flemish origin which had lived for generations in a non-Dutch speaking environment, for example:
- Albert Dresden Vandam (1843–1903), English journalist and writer
- Jerry Vandam (b. 1988), Ghanaian-French footballer
- Kevin VanDam (b. 1967), American fisherman
- Major William Vandam, fictional British officer in Ken Follett's The Key to Rebecca
- Phillip Vandamm, fictional spy in Hitchcock's North by Northwest
Animals
- Van Dam's vanga, a bird named after Douwe Casparus van Dam
See also
References
- ↑ Gawronski, J (2017). "Ontstaan uit een storm; De vroegste geschiedenis van Amsterdam archeologisch en landschappelijk belicht" [Born from a storm; The earliest history of Amsterdam from afrom a landscape and archaeological perspective.] (PDF). Jaarboek van het Genootschap Amstelodamum (in Dutch). Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam. 109. Retrieved 5 January 2021., p. 55.
- 1 2 Filby, P. William & Meyer, Mary K. (1985). Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes. Gale Research Co. ISBN 0-8103-1795-8.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ↑ Nieuwe Wereldt ofte Beschrijvinghe van West-Indian, uit veelerhande Schriften ende Aen-teekeningen van verscheyden Natien (Leiden, Bonaventure & Abraham Elseviers, 1625) p.83: "/in den jare 1609 sonden de bewindt-hebbers van de gheoctroyeerde Oost-Indischische compagnie het jacht de halve mane/ daer voor schipper ende koopman op roer Hendrick Hudson[...]"("in the year 1609 the administrators of the East Indies Company sent the half moon captained by the merchant Hudson[...]")
- ↑ Stratton, Eugene A. (1986). Plymouth Colony: Its History & People, 1620–1691. Salt Lake City: Ancestry Incorporated. ISBN 0-916489-13-2. (page 20).
- ↑ Baltimore Sun obituary for Dam
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