The lavelle Surname
lavelle Name Meaning and History
- Irish: adopted as an English equivalent of Gaelic Ó Maoil Fhábhail ‘descendant of Maolfhábhail’, a personal name meaning ‘fond of movement or travel’.
- English: from the common French place name Laval, from Old French val ‘valley’. This is also a Huguenot name (with the same etymology), taken to England by Etienne-Abel Laval, a minister of the French church in Castle Street, London, around 1730.
- French: habitational name from Lavelle in Puy-de-Dôme or various other, smaller places so named.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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