Show ContentsVan Deursen History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

The Van Deursen name is a habitational surname, created from the name of the German town of Deusen, north of Dortmund, in North Rhine-Westphalia near the Dutch border.

Early Origins of the Van Deursen family

The surname Van Deursen was first found in Flanders.

Early History of the Van Deursen family

This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Van Deursen research. The years 1607, 1638, 1660, 1670, 1713 and 1741 are included under the topic Early Van Deursen History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.

Van Deursen Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: Van Deusen, Van Deursen, Van Deuson, Van Dussenberg, Deusen, Deursen, Deuson and many more.

Early Notables of the Van Deursen family

From this era of Dutch history, those of this who distinguished themselves included Abraham Pietersen Van Deusen (c.1607- c.1670), a miller and a native of Deusen in Holland, who settled in New Amsterdam, where he was one of the Council of 12, the government of the Dutch colony...
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Van Deursen Ranking

In Netherlands, the name Van Deursen is the 527th most popular surname with an estimated 3,320 people with that name. 1


United States Van Deursen migration to the United States +

Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

Van Deursen Settlers in United States in the 17th Century
  • Abraham Pietersen VanDeursen, who arrived in New York in 1630 2
  • Mattheus Abrahamse VanDeursen, who arrived in New York in 1656 2
  • Jacob Abrahamsen VanDeursen, who landed in New York in 1663 2

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

  • Linda van Deursen, Dutch graphic artist and co-founder of Mevis & Van Deursen, a Dutch graphic design studio based in Amsterdam
  • Arie Theodorus van Deursen (1931-2011), Dutch historian
  • Stef Van Deursen, Belgium silver medalist snowboarder at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics


  1. "Most Common Last Names in Netherlands." Forebears, https://forebears.io/netherlands/surnames
  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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