About the name Von
Von belongs to the English & American tradition. Its roots are documented, even though its precise meaning is not recorded in the standard references — an honest gap we prefer to a confident guess.
In the United States, Von first appears in Social Security records in 1898. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #691 in 1958, and in 2024 77 babies received the name — 5,481 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.