Vans Coat of Arms and Surname Origin

Spelled Vans, the surname still points back to Vance. It is a place-based name: “Of the valleys”. Records show Vans as one of the forms Vance took over time. Local scribes, dialects and emigration all left their mark on how the name was written.

Arms linked to Vance and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to. Get the complete Vans report, with a museum-style coat of arms.