Vandervelde
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Dutch van der veld ‘of the field’; first attested Henry Vandelveld 1550 Pat (A Dictionary of English Surnames)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/vɑndərvɛldə/(machine-generated) Dutch · model-generated
Vandervelde is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 837 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010.
- BEBelgium1 in 29K(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands≈1 in 120Kfew records
- CACanada≈1 in 180Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 173 (measured from records)
- 1 in 29K (inferred from the name graph)
837 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Vandervelde
- Dutch:/vɑndərvɛldə/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Dutch van der veld ‘of the field’; first attested Henry Vandelveld 1550 Pat.
Cited for this meaning 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Vandervelde is found
(measured from records)Vandervelde counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 837 | 1 in 397K | 912 | Vandervelde | 173 |
| BE Belgium | 405 | 1 in 29K | 405 | Vandervelde | 38 |
| CA Canada | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 183K | — | Vandervelde | 65 |
| NL Netherlands | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 118K | — | Vandervelde | 15 |
| IN India | ≈92 est. | ≈1 in 16M | — | Vandervelde | 1 |
| AU Australia | ≈67 est. | ≈1 in 408K | — | Vandervelde | 32 |
837 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Émile Vanderveldeb. 1866BEBelgian politician (1866-1938)
- Janika Vanderveldeb. 1955UScomposer
- Julian Vanderveldeb. 1987USAmerican football offensive lineman
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Vandervelde mean, and where does it come from?
- Dutch van der veld ‘of the field’; first attested Henry Vandelveld 1550 Pat. Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Vandervelde?
- In Dutch /vɑndərvɛldə/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Vandervelde?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 837 people named Vandervelde, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled vandervelde. After it come Belgium, Canada, Netherlands and India; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Vandervelde most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Vandervelde is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 29 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Vandervelde?
- In the United States, the national register counted 837 people named Vandervelde in 2010, about 1 in 397 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Vandervelde?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/vanderveldeThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Vandervelde” — ranked 27910th in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.