Name: Melville
Gender: Male
Usage: Melville, of anglo-saxon origin, is not a popular first name. It is more often used as a boy (male) name.
People having the name Melville are in general originating from France, United Kingdom, United States of America.
Meaning: The meaning of the name Melville is: Bad town, Leader.
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Numerology of the first name Melville: calculate the core numbers of your numerology chart to discover your numerological profile and your personality traits.
The Growth number corresponding to this first name is 9. It denotes a pattern that assists you in growth and development: humanitarian, self-sacrificing, idealistic, giving, altruist, devoted, romantic.
Interpretation:
Qualities: Compassionate, Idealistic
Ruling planet: Mars
Colors: Red
Gemstones: Bloodstone
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The name Melville is ranked on the 33,355th position of the most used names. It means that this name is rarely used.
We estimate that there are at least 5600 persons in the world having this name which is around 0.001% of the population. The name Melville has eight characters. It means that it is relatively long-length, compared to the other names in our database.
The graph below represents the number of people who were given the name Melville for each year since 1900 in the U.S.A.:
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History and Origin
Melville is a surname and a given name. The surname has two different origins: Scottish and Irish. The given name originates from England and Scotland. It is also the name of a Scottish noble family.
English (esp. U.S.): transferred use of the Scottish surname, which originated as a Norman baronial name borne by the lords of a place in northern France called Malleville ‘bad settlement’, i.e. settlement on infertile land. The name was taken to Scotland as early as the 12th century and became an important surname there; use as a given name seems also to have originated in Scotland.
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