Colville
English
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Alternative forms
[edit]- (surname): Colvile
Etymology
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]Statistics
[edit]- 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
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Colville”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 357.
Categories:
- English terms derived from Norman
- English terms derived from North Germanic languages
- English terms derived from Old Norse
- English terms derived from French
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- English surnames
- English surnames from Norman
- en:Towns in New Zealand
- en:Places in New Zealand
- en:Unincorporated communities in Arkansas, USA
- en:Unincorporated communities in the United States
- en:Places in Arkansas, USA
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- en:Unincorporated communities in Kentucky, USA
- en:Places in Kentucky, USA
- en:Cities in Washington, USA
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- en:County seats of Washington, USA
- en:Places in Washington, USA