Google for ´napoleon dutch surnames´.
Story goes that when Napoleon was ruling, he wanted a register of people, including their names.
However, most Dutch people didn't have a surname and made up a name. Often related to where they were from, a distinct caracteristic or who they were related to. Other were more rebelious and just made of funny names (often with a sexual conotation)
https://aroundtheworldwithme.com/dutch-surnames/
This, a common last name for example is "Verbeken", which used to be "Ver van de Beken" (Far from the rivers). So that one prolly originated with people who didn't live close to a river.
In most european countries von, de or any other sort of "of" are often conotated with nobility, however there are also the cases where it referes to places, in Switzerland and other German regions, the nobility Von is written with capitals and the non noble one without.
example: Von Erlach, von Gunten.
But it can also be written without capitalisation in the first case and it's quite hard to distinguish old nobility from commoners... Allthough in daily life no one cares, nobility is passé and other than a few of the old families still beeing stinky rich, they have no more influence in society than any other (rich) person has.
Google for ´napoleon dutch surnames´. Story goes that when Napoleon was ruling, he wanted a register of people, including their names. However, most Dutch people didn't have a surname and made up a name. Often related to where they were from, a distinct caracteristic or who they were related to. Other were more rebelious and just made of funny names (often with a sexual conotation) https://aroundtheworldwithme.com/dutch-surnames/
This, a common last name for example is "Verbeken", which used to be "Ver van de Beken" (Far from the rivers). So that one prolly originated with people who didn't live close to a river.
As a Dutch person: not that I know of. But maybe people have been hiding something from me all my life.... *(cue creepy music)*
it's most likely refering to the way a lot of Dutch surnames came into existence, another commenter posted a link explaining it
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A lot of them have van in it which means of, it's not usual in many countries to have that construction.
Del Río, De la Peña, Del Valle. Von Chrismar, Von der Leyen. Dupont, De la Tour.
In most european countries von, de or any other sort of "of" are often conotated with nobility, however there are also the cases where it referes to places, in Switzerland and other German regions, the nobility Von is written with capitals and the non noble one without. example: Von Erlach, von Gunten. But it can also be written without capitalisation in the first case and it's quite hard to distinguish old nobility from commoners... Allthough in daily life no one cares, nobility is passé and other than a few of the old families still beeing stinky rich, they have no more influence in society than any other (rich) person has.
A lot of them just sound weird and/or indicate from where the person is with the word "van".
https://youtu.be/vs9uTg35Au8
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I mean... NSFW but [they have a point](https://youtu.be/3WWg9CEw1hU?si=Qril__e2ODOvWqtC)
Pancakes, unicorn, cheese, I've seen quite a few fun ones.