The Voorhees surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 5,720 people carried this name — #6,012 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 51,500 people counted. That is up 1% from 5,650 in 2000.

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What the name means

The meaning of the Voorhees surname

Anglicization of Dutch (van) voor Hees (“(from) before Hees”).

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

In print

Voorhees in American newspapers,
1888–1916.

Newspaper page from The Jackson Standard carrying the name Voorhees
The Jackson Standard 1888-05-10
Newspaper page from Evening Public Ledger carrying the name Voorhees
Evening Public Ledger 1916-03-13
Newspaper page from The Madison Daily Leader carrying the name Voorhees
The Madison Daily Leader 1897-03-01

Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 122,960 pages in all carry the name.

In print

Voorhees in Australian newspapers,
1850s–1950s.

159 articles name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Voorhees. The most, 75, date from the 1940s. New South Wales has the most articles, but weighed against how much of each state’s press from the same decades has been digitised, the name stands out most in Western Australia, at 1.5 times its expected share.

Articles, by state

New South Wales 53
Queensland 35
Western Australia 22
Victoria 18
South Australia 14
Tasmania 12
ACT (Canberra) 2

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

Who carried it

People named Voorhees,
with a public archive behind them.

  • Philip Voorhees
    Philip Voorhees 1792–1862 · military officer
  • Steven Coertse van Voorhees 1600–1684 · farmer
  • Steven Coertse van Voorhees 1600–1684 · farmer
  • Coert Stevense van Voorhees 1637–1702
  • Coert Stevense van Voorhees 1637–1702
  • Maritjie Garretje Van Voorhees 1687–1761

Wikidata (CC0) · portraits via Wikimedia Commons, shown cropped, in the public domain or CC0 · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.

In the public record

People named Voorhees,
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 States752 records

752 records of the Voorhees name in the United States
  • New York City birth, marriage and death certificates 326
  • U.S. Army enlistment records, World War II 205
  • New York State death index (outside NYC), 1957–2001 101
  • U.S. veterans' cemetery records, burials to 2001 97
  • U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955 13
  • Passenger arrivals in the United States, 1820–1912 6
  • U.S. service members who died in the Korean War 2
  • U.S. service members who died in the Vietnam War 2
  1. A United States Selective Service registration card, 1942
    Example: U.S. registration card, 1942
    Military record Cornelius F. Voorhees

    Born 1917 in New York. Enlisted 1942 at New York City; hospital attendant from New York County. U.S. Army veteran of World War II; died 1999, buried at Calverton National Cemetery, New York.

    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 Donald Lee Voorhees

    Born 1933; from Raleigh, North Carolina. U.S. Army; died in service 1970 in Thua Thien, South Vietnam. Buried at Golden Gate National Cemetery, California.

    U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)
  3. A passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, arriving at New York in 1903
    Example: passenger manifest, 1903
    Passenger record Jane B. Voorhees

    Arrived at New York in 1892 aboard the Etruria from Liverpool and Queenstown, aged 49. Bound for Brooklyn.

    U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted)

Showing 3 of 752 records for Voorhees in the United States.

Counts: NYC Department of Records & Information Services, Historical Vital Records (NYC Open Data) · U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain) · New York State Department of Health, Genealogical Research Death Index · U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) · U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain) · U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted) · 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); Passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, New York, 1903 (public domain).

Canada1 record

1 record of the Voorhees name in Canada Nova Scotia Archives name indexes
  1. A marriage entry in the civil register of Tilburg, 1911
    Example: marriage register, 1911
    Marriage record George Hall Voorhees

    Married 1874 in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

    Nova Scotia Archives. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Nova Scotia.

Counts: Nova Scotia Archives. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Nova Scotia. Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Marriage register, Tilburg, 1911, Regionaal Archief Tilburg (public domain).

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