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Van Doren Ranking

In the United States, the name Van Doren is the 13,892nd most popular surname with an estimated 2,487 people with that name. 1


United States Van Doren migration to the United States +

Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

Van Doren Settlers in United States in the 19th Century
  • Maria VanDoren, aged 6, who arrived in New York in 1849 2

Contemporary Notables of the name Van Doren (post 1700) +

  • Paul Van Doren (1930-2021), American co-founder of Vans, a shoe company in the United States
  • Charles Lincoln Van Doren (1926-2019), American writer and editor who was involved in a television quiz show scandal in the 1950s, son of Mark Van Doren
  • Mark Albert van Doren (1894-1972), American poet awarded the 1940 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
  • Carl Clinton van Doren (1885-1950), American critic and biographer


  1. "What are the 5,000 Most Common Last Names in the U.S.?". NameCensus.com, https://namecensus.com/last-names/
  2. Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)


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