Given Name MELVILLE

GENDER: Masculine
USAGE: English
PRONOUNCED: MEL-vil  [details]

Meaning & History

From a Scottish surname which was originally from a Norman French place name meaning "bad town". A famous bearer of the surname was the American author Herman Melville (1819-1891), who wrote several novels including 'Moby-Dick'.
VARIANTS: Melvin, Melvyn

Categories

currently out of the US top 1000, place names, Suikoden characters, surnames, towns
Entry updated October 30, 2011