The Vandiver surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 6,263 people carried this name — #5,551 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 47,200 people counted. That is up 5% from 5,965 in 2000.

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What the name means

The meaning of the Vandiver surname

Americanized form of Dutch van Duiver, a habitational surname for someone from Duiven.

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Vandiver» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.

In the first U.S. census, 1790

In 1790, Vandiver was counted together with Vanderweir: 21 families in all.

Each family is counted by its head. About 145 people lived in those households, 6.9 to a family on average. The census counted these spellings together: Vanderweir, Vandavour, Vandeavour, Vanderveer, Vanderwier, Vandever, Vandivear, Vandiver, Vandivere, Venderver, Vendevner, Venevere, Vindever. The table lists white heads of families only, in the twelve states whose 1790 records survive; Virginia’s figures come from state lists of 1782–1785.

Families, by state

New York 8
Virginia 7
North Carolina 6

U.S. Census Bureau, «A Century of Population Growth from the First Census of the United States to the Twelfth, 1790–1900» (Washington, 1909), table 111, p. 266 — public domain · names carried by at least 100 white persons in 1790.

In print

Vandiver in American newspapers,
1904–1916.

Newspaper page from The Evening Statesman carrying the name Vandiver
The Evening Statesman 1904-09-17
Newspaper page from The Tacoma Times carrying the name Vandiver
The Tacoma Times 1904-09-13
Newspaper page from The Ogden Standard carrying the name Vandiver
The Ogden Standard 1916-07-10

Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 39,366 pages in all carry the name.

In print

Vandiver in Australian newspapers,
1900s–1960s.

21 articles name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Vandiver. The most, 8, date from the 1960s.

Articles, by state

Queensland 9
ACT (Canberra) 6
Tasmania 2
Western Australia 2
New South Wales 1
South Australia 1

Trove, National Library of Australia (trove.nla.gov.au) · articles in its digitised newspapers that name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Vandiver.

Who carried it

People named Vandiver,
with a public archive behind them.

  • Willard Duncan Vandiver
    Willard Duncan Vandiver 1854–1932 · lawyer
  • Frank Vandiver
    Frank Vandiver 1926–2005 · historian
  • Robert R. Vandiver 1805–1885 · politician
  • Harry Vandiver 1882–1973 · mathematician
  • Ernest Vandiver 1918–2005 · lawyer

Wikidata (CC0) · portraits via Wikimedia Commons, shown cropped, in the public domain or CC0 · 8 lives in all are documented under this name.

In the public record

People named Vandiver,
in the records of 2 countries.

Soldiers, farmers, migrants and neighbours who carried the name and left a trace in public archives. Everyone shown here died long ago or was born more than a century ago.

United States290 records

290 records of the Vandiver name in the United States
  • U.S. Army enlistment records, World War II 205
  • U.S. veterans' cemetery records, burials to 2001 76
  • New York City birth, marriage and death certificates 6
  • U.S. service members who died in the Vietnam War 2
  • U.S. service members who died in the Korean War 1
  1. A United States Selective Service registration card, 1942
    Example: U.S. registration card, 1942
    Military record Edwin C. Vandiver

    Born 1915 in California. Enlisted 1942 at Fresno; mechanic from Fresno County. U.S. Army Air Forces veteran of World War II; died 2001, buried at San Joaquin Valley National Cemetery, California.

    U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)
  2. Names engraved on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington, D.C.
    Example: U.S. war memorial
    War record Harry Melborn Vandiver

    Born 1950; from St Louis, Missouri. U.S. Army, infantryman; died of illness 1971 in Khanh Hoa, South Vietnam.

    U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain)
  3. A U.S. Army record of death and interment, Camp Nelson, Kentucky, 1864
    Example: U.S. burial record, 1864
    Burial record John Vandiver

    U.S. Marine Corps veteran of the Korean War and the Vietnam War. Born 1931, died 1982; buried at Fort Gibson National Cemetery, Oklahoma.

    U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)

Showing 3 of 290 records for Vandiver in the United States.

Counts: U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain) · U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) · NYC Department of Records & Information Services, Historical Vital Records (NYC Open Data) · U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: U.S. Selective Service registration card, 1942 (public domain); Vietnam Veterans Memorial, photo by U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael J. Carden, 2009 (public domain); Record of death and interment, Camp Nelson, Kentucky, 1864, U.S. National Archives (public domain).

Netherlands1 record

1 record of the Vandiver name in the Netherlands Dutch church registers before 1811
  1. A marriage entry in the civil register of Tilburg, 1911
    Example: marriage register, 1911
    Marriage record Henderik van Diver

    Married in 1724.

    Open Archives, Regionaal Historisch Centrum Vecht en Venen (CC BY 4.0)

Counts: Open Archives (CC BY 4.0). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Marriage register, Tilburg, 1911, Regionaal Archief Tilburg (public domain).

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