Melvin

melvin English <dab!> Etymology Variant of the Scottish surname Melville, from a place name Malleville in Normandy, from en la mala bad + en fro ville settlement. Used to Anglicize gd Mac Gille Beathain in Scotland and ga Ó Maoil Mhín in Ireland. Pronunciation en /ˈmɛlvɪn/ en ɛlvɪn 2 Proper noun en Old French. 1824 Thomas M'Crie, The Life of Andrew Melville, W. Blackwood (1824), page 416: Melville always wrote his name Melvinus in Latin, and he is often called Melvin in English. Hence some have concluded that Melvin, and not Melville, was his proper name. But they are merely different modes of pronouncing the same family appellation. en male surnames. en 1976 w:Melvin Belli My Life on Trial: An Autobiography Morrow 0688030858 21 And for some reason, they called me Pete. My mother, who probably dug up the name Melvin from some romantic novel about Englishmen drinking tea, cringed at the "Pete". en 2007-08-21 Kareem Fahim Presidential Candidate Blames Killings on Newark Sanctuary Policy w:The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/21/us/politics/21newark.html On Monday, the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency placed a similar detainer on Melvin Jovel, 18, who on Sunday was the sixth person to be arrested in the case. https://web.archive.org/web/20190830194147/https://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/21/us/politics/21newark.html en number of places c/USA: en ucomm co/Choctaw County s/Alabama. en former ucomm co/Fresno County s/California now incorporated into city/Clovis. en village co/Ford County s/Illinois. en minor city co/Osceola County s/Iowa. en ucomm and coal town in co/Floyd County s/Kentucky. en village twp:Suf/Speaker co/Sanilac County s/Michigan. en ucomm twp:Suf/Richland co/Clinton County s/Ohio. en ghost town co/Custer County s/South Dakota. en town co/McCulloch County s/Texas. Derived terms en Melvin Village Cebuano Etymology ceb From ceb en Melvin. Proper noun ceb noun ceb male English < Old French < Latin Spanish Etymology es :bor en:Melvin + 1 Pronunciation Proper noun m es male Swedish Etymology Recently borrowed from sv en Melvin. Pronunciation sv LL-Q9027 (swe)-Moonhouse-Melvin.wav Proper noun c sv male Usage notes Popular in Sweden in the 2000s.