van der Valk Surname

99,677th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 4,746 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Netherlands
Highest density in:
Netherlands

van der Valk Surname User-submission:

Translates to "of the falcon". Probably either started as a family of falconeers, or a noble family named themselves after the Falcon.

van der Valk Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Netherlands4,1581:4,061388
Australia1091:247,66722,912
South Africa891:608,73846,089
France581:1,145,219121,886
Belgium551:209,03027,072
Canada391:944,75971,777
New Zealand381:119,16614,967
England321:1,741,18971,393
Thailand291:2,435,805267,220
United States281:12,944,962483,512
Germany241:3,354,394150,996
Curaçao191:8,276277
Switzerland111:746,62949,719
Chile101:1,761,64727,489
Aruba91:11,4971,511
Sweden51:1,969,351134,077
Egypt41:22,983,93862,368
Iceland41:95,0224,787
Bolivia31:3,538,81111,393
Italy31:20,385,563143,117
Spain21:23,376,018128,922
Scotland21:2,676,90851,579
Brazil21:107,037,1661,031,150
Ireland21:2,354,47019,715
Ecuador21:7,952,92334,269
Argentina11:42,743,414282,706
Turkey11:77,821,422191,047
Northern Ireland11:1,845,03620,648
Morocco11:34,476,099111,471
Peru11:31,784,12364,452
Luxembourg11:580,54215,155
Ghana11:27,020,69223,742
China11:1,367,321,56651,149
Denmark11:5,644,71593,155

van der Valk Surname Meaning

User-submitted Reference

Translates to "of the falcon". Probably either started as a family of falconeers, or a noble family named themselves after the Falcon.

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van der Valk Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name van der Valk Come From? nationality or country of origin

van der Valk is found most frequently in The Netherlands. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here to see other potential spellings of van der Valk.

How Common Is The Last Name van der Valk? popularity and diffusion

The surname van der Valk is the 99,677th most frequently used last name throughout the world. It is borne by approximately 1 in 1,535,513 people. This surname occurs predominantly in Europe, where 92 percent of van der Valk reside; 91 percent reside in Western Europe and 89 percent reside in Germanic Europe.

The last name is most frequent in The Netherlands, where it is borne by 4,158 people, or 1 in 4,061. In The Netherlands van der Valk is mostly concentrated in: South Holland, where 46 percent reside, North Holland, where 13 percent reside and Utrecht, where 10 percent reside. Barring The Netherlands this last name is found in 33 countries. It is also found in Australia, where 2 percent reside and South Africa, where 2 percent reside.

van der Valk Last Name Statistics demography

The amount van der Valk earn in different countries varies greatly. In South Africa they earn 113.79% more than the national average, earning R 508,044 per year and in Canada they earn 2.9% more than the national average, earning $51,123 CAD per year.

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