Last name: LINVILLE

Welcome at Geneanet!

Welcome at Geneanet!

With Geneanet, find your ancestors from home, create your family tree for free, and explore and share your family history. Genealogy has never been easier, thanks to our database of 9 billion individuals, and our community of enthusiasts.

All you have to know about the last name LINVILLE

Last name frequency

LINVILLE : This last name is indexed 12,484 times on Geneanet!

Origin of last name

LINVILLE : English: probably a habitational name from a lost or unidentified place perhaps in France. The surname is not found in present-day English records but is recorded in Hampshire (also in the forms Lenvill Linvel) in the 17th century. Perhaps it is an altered form of English Lindfield or Lingfield a habitational name from a place so called in Sussex altered by false analogy with the alternation in Norman names between -ville and -field.

Learn more

Variants of last name

The spelling of names may have changed over the centuries. Knowing these names variants will help you build your family tree.

Search a name

Discover your ancestors and build your family tree step by step through billions of data included in our members' family trees and through civil records.

Most popular first names

Most indexed countries

Available collections for this name