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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : habitational name from Monville in Calvados or Montville in Seine-Maritime, both named with Old French mont ‘mountain’, ‘hill’ (see Mont 1) + ville ‘demesne’, ‘estate’ (later ‘village’, ‘town’). In some instances the name may be from Monville in Fronville in Namur province, Belgium.

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