Malleville as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Malleville

What is the meaning of the name Malleville ?

The baby name Malleville is a Unisex name , 3 syllables long and is pronounced French: /mal.vil/ (mal-VEEL); English: /ˌmæləˈviːl/ (MAL-uh-VEEL).

Malleville is French in Origin.

Malleville is a French toponymic name from Normandy, built on -ville (from Latin villa, “farm, estate”) preceded by a personal name in the Mall-/Mal- family, likely from continental Germanic Madal- (“assembly, council”). The sense is “Malle’s estate” or “the estate of a man named Madal/Mallo,” not “bad town” despite folk association with mal. It appears in communes such as Malleville-sur-le-Bec.

Found in medieval records as de Malleville, it became a hereditary surname; the Norman form later yielded the Scottish surname Melville, tying the name indirectly to writer Herman Melville. As a given name, Malleville is rare and stylishly surname-like, suitable for all genders. Variants and cognates include Maleville, Malville, Melville, and De Malleville; shorter modern nicknames like Mal or Mally are intuitive. Overall meaning: “estate of Malle/Madal.”

⚙ Malleville is a genuine rarity. We count just 1 recorded use of it worldwide, from 1 country.