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Van Cleave Ranking

In the United States, the name Van Cleave is the 8,607th most popular surname with an estimated 2,487 people with that name. 1


United States Van Cleave migration to the United States +

Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

Van Cleave Settlers in United States in the 17th Century
  • Jan VanCleave, who landed in Long Island in 1653 2
Van Cleave Settlers in United States in the 19th Century
  • Thomas Van Cleave, aged 31, who arrived in New York in 1893 aboard the ship "Tauric" from Liverpool, England 3
Van Cleave Settlers in United States in the 20th Century
  • Helen Van Cleave, who arrived in New York in 1906 aboard the ship "Minneapolis" from London, England 3

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

  • Lindley T. Vancleave, American politician, Prohibition Candidate for U.S. Representative from Indiana 9th District, 1900 4


  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)
  3. Ellis Island Search retrieved 15th November 2022. Retrieved from https://heritage.statueofliberty.org/passenger-result
  4. The Political Graveyard: Alphabetical Name Index. (Retrieved 2016, February 2) . Retrieved from http://politicalgraveyard.com/alpha/index.html


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