Vonk (surname)

Vonk is a Dutch metonymic occupational surname. Vonk means "spark" and refers to the work of a Smith. People with this surname include:

Britt Vonk (born 1991), Dutch softball player
Erik Vonk, Dutch banker and entrepreneur
Freek Vonk (born 1983), Dutch biologist
Hans Vonk (1942–2004), Dutch conductor, champion of Dutch composers
Hans Vonk (born 1970), South African football goalkeeper
Henk Vonk (born 1942), Dutch football trainer and scout
Marcel Vonk, Dutch poker player and physicist
Michel Vonk (born 1968), Dutch football player and manager
Rob Vonk (born 1950), Dutch modern pentathlete
Roos Vonk (born 1960), Dutch psychologist
Theo Vonk (born 1947), Dutch footballer

Surnames associated with the occupation of smith

Armenian	Darbinyan

Celtic	Cowell Goff Gow Gowan Mac a' Ghobhainn MacGavin / McGavin MacGowan / McGowan

Germanic	De Smet Schmid Schmidt Schmied Schmitt Schmitz Smeets Smet Smets Smit Smith Smithe Smither Smithers Smithies Smithson Smits Smyth Smythe

Indic	Lohar

Kartvelian	Mchedlidze Mchedlishvili

Romance	Fabbri Faber Fabre Fabri Faure Favre Feaver Ferrara Ferrari Ferraris Ferraro Ferrara Ferré Ferreira Ferrer Ferrero Ferreiro Ferretti Ferrier Fieraru Fierarul Herrera Herrero Lefébure Lefebvre Lefèvre

Semitic	Haddad Hadodo Al-Haddad El-Haddad

Slavic	Covaci Kovač Kovačev Kovačević Kovachev Kovačić Kovács Koval Kovalchuk (Kowalczuk) Kovalenko Kovalevich Kovalevsky Kovalic Kovals Kovalyov Kovář Kovařík Kowal, Kowalik, Kowalczyk, Kowalski, Kowalewski Kuznets Kuznetsov

Turkic	Demirci Demircioğlu

Uralic	Sepp Seppä Seppänen Seppälä

From "spark" rel. to occ. 'smith'	Funke Vonck Vonk

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Vonk (surname)

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