Colville as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Colville

What is the meaning of the name Colville ?

The baby name Colville is a Male name , 2 syllables long and is pronounced KOL-vil (IPA: /ˈkɒl.vɪl/).

Colville is Norman French in Origin.

Colville is a transferred surname-turned-given name of Anglo-Norman and Scottish heritage. It derives from the Norman toponym Colleville, one of several places in Normandy named from the Old Norse byname Koli (“coal-dark; swarthy”) + Old French ville (“settlement, estate”), yielding the sense “Koli’s estate/settlement.” Brought to Britain after 1066 by the de Colville family, the name took root in England and, by the 12th century, in Scotland, where Philip de Colville founded the line that became Clan Colville and later the Lords Colville of Culross.

As a given name, Colville appears sporadically from the 18th and 19th centuries onward in Britain and North America, following the fashion for adopting surnames as first names. Variant spellings include Colvill and Colvile; related French forms are Colleville and de Colville. Common short forms are Col and Cole. Pronunciation: KOL-vil.

⚙ Colville barely registers. Across 4 countries, we found just 5 recorded uses of it.