The story
- Old French · derived fromNeville
- English todayNeville
* A Norman baronial surname, de Neville, from place names in Normandy, Néville, from Old French Neville (literally “Néel's estate”) or Neuville (literally “new settlement”), equivalent to nuef + ville. * Also as an Irish surname, from Ó Niadh (see Nee) or Ó Cnaimhín (see Nevin).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.