VanDiver
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈvænˌdaɪvɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
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.
- USUnited States1 in 53K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 118K
- PKPakistan≈1 in 15K
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)
- Sources
- 320 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)
≈15,000 people, est.
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.
Sources 1
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(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 15K | — | VanDiver | 1 |
| US United States | 6,263 | 1 in 53K | 6.3K | VanDiver | 320 |
| IT Italy | ≈690 est. | ≈1 in 91K | — | VanDiver | 6 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈560 est. | ≈1 in 118K | — | VanDiver | 16 |
| CA Canada | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 85K | — | VanDiver | 12 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 39K | — | VanDiver | 3 |
| LB Lebanon | ≈70 est. | ≈1 in 78K | — | VanDiver | 1 |
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)
- Robert R. Vandiverb. 1805USAmerican politician (1805–1885)
- Willard Duncan Vandiverb. 1854USAmerican politician (1854-1932)
- Harry Vandiverb. 1882USAmerican mathematician (1882–1973)
- Ernest Vandiverb. 1918USAmerican politician from Georgia (1918–2005)
- Frank Vandiverb. 1926USAmerican historian
- J. Kim Vandiverb. 1945USAmerican academic (born 1945)
- 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)
Attested in 6 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 6.3K | #5,551 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 6K | #5,375 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 5.4K | #6,062 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
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.
- How do you pronounce VanDiver?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈvænˌdaɪvɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does VanDiver have the most bearers?
- 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.
- 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 2026-10-10.