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De graaf Ranking

In Netherlands, the name De graaf is the 27th most popular surname with an estimated 22,952 people with that name. 1


United States De graaf migration to the United States +

Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

De graaf Settlers in United States in the 17th Century
  • Cornelis DeGraaf, aged 22, who landed in New York in 1659 2
De graaf Settlers in United States in the 19th Century
  • Loendert DeGraaf, aged 40, who landed in America, in 1893
De graaf Settlers in United States in the 20th Century
  • B. deGraaf, aged 30, who landed in America from The Hague, in 1906
  • Otto deGraaf, aged 36, who immigrated to America from Amsterdam, Holland, in 1911
  • Jacoba DeGraaf, aged 27, who landed in America from Rotterdam, Holland, in 1913
  • Isbele deGraaf, aged 55, who settled in America from Amsterdam, in 1917
  • Johannes DeGraaf, aged 45, who immigrated to the United States, in 1918
  • ... (More are available in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.)

Contemporary Notables of the name De graaf (post 1700) +

  • Peter DeGraaf, American politician, Republican member of the Kansas House of Representatives, representing the 81st district
  • Peter DeGraaf, American politician, Mayor of Chula Vista, California, 1957-58 3


  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, November 11) . Retrieved from http://politicalgraveyard.com/alpha/index.html


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