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No that's not true...Yes, Van is often used as a preposition to verbs "He fell OF the table" with 'of' being the right translation of "Van", so you can say 'that's the child OF him' with "of" referring to "Van", but Van doesn't mean child of...In Holland, when you have child named after you which appears in surnames, it would be Zoon, as in Davidszoon, Scheepszoon, Jongerszoon etc. But it is NOT used by adding Van to a surname...:)