Bongers Explained

Bongers or Bonger is a Dutch toponymic surname akin to modern Dutch boomgaards ("from the orchard") and is thereby equivalent to Bogaert and van den Boogaard.^[1]

People with this surname include:

Bongers

• Bart Bongers (1946–2007), Dutch water polo player

• Bram Bongers (1926–1980), Dutch magician known as "Fred Kaps"
• Els Bongers (born ca. 1970), Dutch soprano
• Gert Bongers (born 1948), Dutch track cyclist
• H. Bongers (1873–1940), photographer of Borobudur in Java

Bonger

• Andries Bonger (1861–1936), Dutch art collector, brother of Johanna
• Johanna van Gogh-Bonger (1862–1925), wife of Theo van Gogh and keyplayer in the growth of Vincent van Gogh's fame
• Willem Adriaan Bonger (1876–1940), Dutch criminologist

Notes and References

1. Web site: Nederlandse Familienamenbank. www.meertens.knaw.nl.