Beekman is a Dutch toponymic surname, literally translating as "creek man".[1] Variant forms are Beeckman and Beekmans. The Estonian poet Vladimir Beekman's family originally carried the name Peekmann.[2] People with the surname include:

People

Beekman family of New York

Prominent descendants of the Beekman family originally of Overijssel, Netherlands:[3]

  • Wilhelmus Beekman (1623-1707), Treasurer of the Dutch West India Company, Governor of Delaware and Pennsylvania, 1653/58-1663
    • Gerardus Beekman (1653–1723), colonel, surgeon, Governor of the Province of New York

Other people with the surname

Beekmans
  • Gerard Beekmans (born 1979), Dutch programmer
  • Paul Beekmans (born 1982), Dutch footballer
  • Gerald Beekman (born 1949), known throughout Scotland as the big sacks of Jarvie Avenue.

Given name

Places and buildings

All named after descendants of Willem Beekman:

See also

References

  1. Beekman at the Database of Surnames in The Netherlands.
  2. Vladimir Beekman genealogy at geni.com.
  3. William Benford Aitken, Distinguished Families in America, Descended from Wilhelmus Beekman and Jan Thomasse Van Dyke, Knickerbocker Press, 1912
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