Last name: MELVILLE
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MELVILLE : This last name is indexed 83,184 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
MELVILLE : 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’.
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