Melville

Scottish

"settlement on infertile land"

Melville Origin and Meaning

The name Melville is a boy's name of Scottish origin meaning "settlement on infertile land".

All names ending in ville are in nowheresville.

Melville Rank in US Top 1000

# 973 in the US

Famous People Named Melville

• Melville Weston Fuller 8th Chief Justice of the US
• Melville Davisson Post American mystery novelist
• Melville Leslie Macnaghten English police commissioner who investigated Jack the Ripper
• (George) Melville Cooper English actor
• Melvil Poupaud French actor
• Richard Melville Hall aka Moby American techno singer and songwriter
• Herman Melville American novelist of "Moby Dick"