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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : habitational name from any of the many places, mainly in northern France, so named from Latin nova villa ‘new villa, estate’ (later, ‘town’). The surname is also established in French Switzerland and may have been brought to the U.S. from there.

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