Malvil as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Malvil

What is the meaning of the name Malvil ?

The baby name Malvil is a Unisex name , 2 syllables long and is pronounced ˈmæl.vɪl (MAL-vil).

Malvil is in Origin.

Malvil is a rare modern given name with Norman-French roots. It descends from the toponymic surname Malville/Maleville - ultimately from Old French mal ‘poor, difficult’ and ville ‘town, settlement’ (Latin villa) - a label for a farm or village on hard or unproductive ground. Through Scotland the name developed into the well-known surname Melville; the streamlined French form Melvil also appears, and Malvil follows the same pattern.

Usage as a first name is very scarce; it arises by the surname-as-given-name tradition and by creative respelling. Related personal names have been recorded since at least the 18th–19th centuries (e.g., Melville as a Scottish forename; the American reformer Melvil Dewey; modern French bearer Melvil Poupaud). Variants and cognates include Malville, Maleville, Melville, Melvil, and Melvile. The sense attached today is ‘from Malville’ or, more literally, ‘from the difficult/poor settlement.’

⚙ Malvil turns up in none of the birth registries or name datasets we cover. That usually points to a very rare, regional, or newly coined name. However you look at it, very few people share it.