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The melville Surname

melville Name Meaning and History

  1. Scottish (of Norman origin): habitational name from any of the various places in Normandy called Malleville, from Latin mala ‘bad’ + ville ‘settlement’.
  2. Irish (mainly Ulster): English surname adopted by bearers of Gaelic Ó Maoilmhichíl ‘descendant of Maoilmhichil’, a personal name meaning ‘devotee of (Saint) Michael’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The melville name in History

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Distribution of melville Families in the US in 1920
Number of melville families
 62-121
 21-61		 1-20
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 187 - Messages: 486
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Melville family Evelyn Schwank Melville 27
Melville- Sean Connery Connection D. Melville 4
David Henry Melville /NY patcox149 5
James MELVILLE Jack Crosley 1
Melvilles from Chippewa Wisconsin Sanjos347 2
Eleanor Melville patcox149 0
Thomas Melville andreabaker2 3
Chicago-Indiana Melvilles - 1870-1900 jrmelville 1
Travis Melville---where are you? sbriggs175 1
Thomas Melville andreabaker2 0
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