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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch (Van den Hoek) : topographic name for someone living at a corner or in a secluded nook, from hoek ‘corner’, ‘nook’, or habitational name from any of the many places named with this word (see Van Hook).

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