Popular Names
VAN Name
| Name: | Van |
| Gender: | Male |
| Origin/Usage: | Dutch, English, Indian, Scandinavian, Vietnamese |
| Meaning: | forest |
Van Wyck Brooks: "No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead."