Van de Wetering

Van de Wetering is a Dutch toponymic surname, meaning "from/of the (drainage) channel".[1] Among spelling variants are Watering, Weetering and Weteringh. Many waters in the Netherlands have the name as well a number of towns, themselves named after a wetering, e.g. Wetering, Nieuwe-Wetering, Nieuwe-Wetering, and Oude Wetering. Forms without the article (Van Wetering etc.) likely refer to such a settlement. People with these names name include:

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  • Conrad van de Weetering (1929–2017), Dutch ballet dancer and choreographer
  • Myrthe van de Weetering (born 1988), Dutch violinist and composer

References

  1. ^ Wetering, van de at the Database of Surnames in The Netherlands.