VanDiver
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
VanDiver is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Americanized form of Dutch van Duiver, a habitational surname for someone from Duiven.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 17Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 36Kfew records
- USUnited States1 in 53K
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.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 320 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 17K (inferred from the name graph)
≈15,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Pakistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Americanized form of Dutch van Duiver, a habitational surname for someone from Duiven.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname VanDiver is found
(measured from records)VanDiver 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | VanDiver | 1 |
| US United States | 6,263 | 1 in 53K | 6.3K | VanDiver | 320 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈640 est. | ≈1 in 108K | — | VanDiver | 16 |
| CA Canada | ≈530 est. | ≈1 in 78K | — | VanDiver | 12 |
| AU Australia | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 129K | — | VanDiver | 9 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 36K | — | VanDiver | 3 |
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. 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)- Harry Vandiverb. 1882USAmerican mathematician (1882–1973)
- Ernest Vandiverb. 1918USAmerican politician from Georgia (1918–2005)
- Shaun Vandiverb. 1968USAmerican basketball player and coach
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)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name VanDiver mean, and where does it come from?
- Americanized form of Dutch van Duiver, a habitational surname for someone from Duiven. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname VanDiver?
- Mondonomo estimates about 15 thousand people named VanDiver in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled VanDiver. After it come United States, United Kingdom, Canada and Australia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name VanDiver?
- In the United States, the national register counted 6,263 people named VanDiver in 2010, about 1 in 53 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/vandiverThe 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, “VanDiver”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.