Family name origins & meanings
- Dutch (van Schoonhoven) : habitational name for someone from Schoonhoven in South Holland or another place of the same name in Kampenhout in Brabant province, Belgium.
- This name is recorded in Beverwijck in New Netherland (Albany, NY) in the mid 17th century. Geurt Hendrickse van Schoonhoven was a carpenter who came to New Netherland in about 1650.