Surname Origin

The Neville Surname


Meaning
of Néville
Type
Locational
Root
Norman French
Chiefly
Northern England

From Néville or Neuville in Normandy — neuve ville, ‘new town’, which was as unimaginative a place name in eleventh-century France as it is in modern English.

The family became prominent in the north of England.

Bestow the name a title it never had

An honorific Lord or Lady certificate in the Neville name, hand-finished and sealed, with a square metre of Scottish woodland dedicated alongside it. A novelty, magnificently done — and a good deal more fun than a family tree.

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