Melle Family History
- Melle Name Meaning
- 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.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 31,497 Historical Documents with Melle on Ancestry
- 14,278 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 4,726 Census and Voter Lists
- 1,096 Military Records
- 1,641 Immigration Records
- 9,756 Member Trees
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Number of Melle families
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from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
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10 - 17 4 - 9 |
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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from 1880 Federal Census Data
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