Melvin

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.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛlvɪn/

Melvin

1. A surname from Old French.
   • 1824 Thomas M'Crie, The Life of Andrew Melville, W. Blackwood (1824), page 416:

     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.

2. A male given name transferred from the surname.
   • 1976, Melvin Belli, My Life on Trial: An Autobiography, Morrow, →ISBN, page 21:

     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".

3. A number of places in the United States:
   1. An unincorporated community in Choctaw County, Alabama.
   2. A former unincorporated community in Fresno County, California, now incorporated into Clovis.
   3. A village in Ford County, Illinois.
   4. A minor city in Osceola County, Iowa.
   5. An unincorporated community and coal town in Floyd County, Kentucky.
   6. A village in Speaker Township, Sanilac County, Michigan.
   7. An unincorporated community in Richland Township, Clinton County, Ohio.
   8. A ghost town in Custer County, South Dakota.
   9. A town in McCulloch County, Texas.

From English Melvin.

Melvin

1. a male given name from English [in turn from Old French, in turn from Latin]

Borrowed from English Melvin.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmelbin/ [ˈmel.β̞ĩn]
• Rhymes: -elbin
• Syllabification: Mel‧vin

Melvin m

1. a male given name

Recently borrowed from English Melvin.

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Melvin c (genitive Melvins)

1. a male given name

• Popular in Sweden in the 2000s.