Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Maoil
Mhichíl ‘descendant of the devotee of St. Michael’ (see
Melville). In Counties Clare and Galway Mulvihill has been
changed to Mulville and Melville, and in Ulster
Mitchell has been adopted as an equivalent.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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