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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (Devon and Cornwall) : according to Reaney a habitational name of Norman origin, from Gouville in Eure, France, recorded earlier as Wivilla, but possibly from the Old English personal name Wifel or the vocabulary word wifel ‘weevil’, ‘beetle’.
  • Danish : habitational name from the place name Vivild.

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