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Vermeer Ranking

In Netherlands, the name Vermeer is the 131st most popular surname with an estimated 8,383 people with that name. 1


United States Vermeer migration to the United States +

Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

Vermeer Settlers in United States in the 19th Century
  • Antonie Vermeer, who landed in Iowa in 1856 2
  • Brandt Vermeer, who arrived in Iowa in 1856 2
  • Gerrit Vermeer, who landed in Iowa in 1856 2
  • Hendrik Vermeer, who arrived in Iowa in 1856 2

Contemporary Notables of the name Vermeer (post 1700) +

  • Maureen Vermeer, American Libertarian politician, Candidate for Michigan State Board of Education, 1976 3
  • Arie Vermeer (1922-2013), Dutch football player who played from 1942 to 1955
  • Jan Vermeer (1632-1675), Dutch painter


  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)
  3. The Political Graveyard: Alphabetical Name Index. (Retrieved 2015, October 16) . Retrieved from http://politicalgraveyard.com/alpha/index.html


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