Trevelyan
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English
Etymology
From Cornish trev (“farmstead; town”) + the Cornish personal name Elyan.
Proper noun
Trevelyan (plural Trevelyans)
- A surname from Cornish.
Statistics
- According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Trevelyan is the 8173rd most common surname in England, belonging to 781 individuals.
Further reading
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Trevelyan”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.