Vanderwaal
surname · Latin script
Vanderwaal is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Dutch van der Waal.
- USUnited States1 in 840K(measured from records)
- IEIreland≈1 in 167K
- SGSingapore≈1 in 213K
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)
- Sources
- 128 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 167K (inferred from the name graph)
396 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Ireland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Dutch van der Waal
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Vanderwaal 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 | 396 | 1 in 840K | 408 | Vanderwaal | 128 |
| IT Italy | ≈43 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | Vanderwaal | 1 |
| AU Australia | ≈39 est. | ≈1 in 646K | — | Vanderwaal | 29 |
| NL Netherlands | ≈37 est. | ≈1 in 473K | — | Vanderwaal | 6 |
| IE Ireland | ≈31 est. | ≈1 in 167K | — | Vanderwaal | 1 |
| SG Singapore | ≈29 est. | ≈1 in 213K | — | Vanderwaal | 1 |
396 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. 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)
- Grace VanderWaalb. 2004USAmerican singer-songwriter
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)
Attested in 4 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 408 | #54,521 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 396 | #52,383 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 313 | #60,230 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Vanderwaal mean, and where does it come from?
- Dutch van der Waal Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Vanderwaal have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 396 people named Vanderwaal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled vanderwaal.
- How common is the name Vanderwaal?
- In the United States, the national register counted 396 people named Vanderwaal in 2010, about 1 in 840 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/vanderwaalThe 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, “Vanderwaal”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.