The melle Surname
melle Name Meaning and History
- North German: habitational name from Melle near Osnabrück, earlier Menele , probably from Old Saxon gimeni ‘public’ + lo ‘woods’.
- Dutch and Belgian (van Melle): habitational name from places in East Flanders and North Brabant.
- Galician: habitational name from a village so named in Lugo province, Galicia.
- French: metonymic occupational name from Old French melle ‘buckle’, ‘ring’.
- French: habitation name from Melle-sur-Béronne in Deux-Sèvres.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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