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Van Allen

Updated: April 17, 2025
Updated: April 17, 2025

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch and Belgian : habitational name for someone from Alen or Aalden, in the province of Drenthe, or from a place in northern France called Allan.
  • Pieter van Allen came to New Netherland in 1658.

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