Vancouver
loc · Latin script
Meaning: Perhaps an altered anglicization of Dutch Van Coevorden or Van Couwen, ‘person from Coevorden or Couwen’, places in the Netherlands
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: Familienaam.be, 2008
Vancouver is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Canada.
- CACanada
- GHGhana
- USUnited States
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Perhaps an altered anglicization of Dutch Van Coevorden or Van Couwen, ‘person from Coevorden or Couwen’, places in the Netherlands.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Recorded in:
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Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Vancouver is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, city, Canada; city, WA
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In French, Vancouver (a seaport, the largest city in British Columbia, Canada)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Croatian, grad i luka na kanadskoj tihooceanskoj obali, 1.268.183 stan. (šire područje)
as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Charles Vancouverb. 1756GBBritish agriculturalist
- George Vancouverb. 1757GBEnglish naval explorer (1757–1798)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence
(measured from records)3 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Vancouver mean, and where does it come from?
- Perhaps an altered anglicization of Dutch Van Coevorden or Van Couwen, ‘person from Coevorden or Couwen’, places in the Netherlands. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Vancouver have the most bearers?
- Vancouver is most frequently recorded in Canada.
What do you want to know about Vancouver?
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About this data
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Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Vancouver”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.