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The neville Surname

neville Name Meaning and History

  1. Irish and English (of Norman origin): habitational name from Neuville in Calvados or Néville in Seine-Maritime, both so called from Old French neu(f) ‘new’ (Latin novus) + ville ‘settlement’ (see Villa).
  2. Irish (Munster): assimilation of the Gaelic name Ó Niadh (see Nee) and sometimes of Ó Cnaimhín (see Nevin).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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neville Family Facts

Distribution of neville Families in the US in 1920
Number of neville families
 124-246
 42-123		 1-41
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Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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