Melvin
Eigennamein Dialogen belegt
- //ˈmɛlvɪn//
A surname from Old French.
Eigenname
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A surname from Old French.
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.
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A male given name transferred from the surname.
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".
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.
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A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Choctaw County, Alabama.
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A number of places in the United States: A former unincorporated community in Fresno County, California, now incorporated into Clovis.
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A number of places in the United States: A village in Ford County, Illinois.
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A number of places in the United States: A minor city in Osceola County, Iowa.
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A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community and coal town in Floyd County, Kentucky.
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A number of places in the United States: A village in Speaker Township, Sanilac County, Michigan.
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A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Richland Township, Clinton County, Ohio.
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A number of places in the United States: A ghost town in Custer County, South Dakota.
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A number of places in the United States: A town in McCulloch County, Texas.
Herkunft
Variant of the Scottish surname Melville, from a place name Malleville in Normandy, from Latin mala (“bad”) + Old French ville (“settlement”). * Used to Anglicize Mac Gille Beathain in Scotland and Ó Maoil Mhín in Ireland.