) and foreign names across the pond is undoubtedly far superior, so that argument probably falls short.
I couldn't find the wiki article you refer to, I'd love to read it. I am however pretty certain about my statement that you won't find many concatenated names within the (tiny) Netherlands. I have friends from all over the country and simply have never encountered someone here with such a name. While they are common in the similarly small country across our South border.
Some statistics regarding the occurrence of Vanhumbeck and similar names in the Netherlands in 1947 (only accurate statistics I could find):
- Vanhumbeck: 0
- Humbach: 1 person
- van Humbeeck: 4 people
- van der Hum: 6 people (beek means creek by the way)
- Vanhumbeeck: 1 person
12 people in total in 1947 who had a name similar to Vanhumbeck in The Netherlands (all in the South, by the way) is an incredibly tiny amount. Perhaps the number was higher in the past, though.
To compare some more common but still related names:
- van de Beek / Van der Beek: 3574 people in total (all over the country)
- van Beek: 11118
- Beck: 857
- Verbeek: 6029
- Beekman: 2890
Also notice the absence of the "ck" in the more common names.
The Netherlands had a population of 10 million at that time.
Source: http://www.meertens.knaw.nl/cms/
A seemingly good source for current names in Belgium can be found here:
http://www.familienaam.be/
Some current statistics with the same names as above:
- Vanhumbeck: 7
- van Humbeeck: 845
- Humbeeck: 75
- VanHumbeeck: 182
- van der Hum: 0
- Humbach: 0
- van de Beek/ van der Beek: 201 (all in the North at the border with us)
- van Beek (all in the North)
- Beck: 1022 (all over the country)
- Verbeek: 1265 (in the North)
- Beekman: 81 (all over the country)
Conclusion:
as far as possible going on data that is half a century removed, it seems the names similar to Morgan's Vanhumbeck are more common in Belgium.
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did I kill the thread?
