Colville
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English
Alternative forms
- (surname): Colvile
Etymology
Scottish habitational surname of Norman origin, from the village of Colleville, in Normandy, of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse kol (“coal”) + the French habitational suffix -ville.
Proper noun
Colville (countable and uncountable, plural Colvilles)
- A surname from Norman.
- A small town on the Coromandel Peninsula in Waikato region, New Zealand. [1]
- An unincorporated community in Benton County, Arkansas, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Harrison County and Bourbon County, Kentucky, United States.
- A city, the county seat of Stevens County, Washington, United States.
Derived terms
Statistics
- According to the 2010 United States Census, Colville is the 20709th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1277 individuals. Colville is most common among White (93.74%) individuals.
References
Further reading
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Colville”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 357.