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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch (de Vent) : nickname from Middle Dutch vennoot, or veynoot ‘colleague’, ‘apprentice’, ‘mate’, ‘guy’.
  • Czech : from a reduced form of the Italian personal name Bonaventura.

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