Deville Family History
Deville Name Meaning
English (of Norman origin): habitational name from Déville
in Seine-Maritime, France, probably named with Latin dei villa
‘settlement of (i.e. under the protection of) God’. This name was
interpreted early on as a prepositional phrase de ville or
de val and applied to dwellers in a town or valley (see
Ville and Vale).English: nickname from Middle
English devyle, Old English deofol ‘devil’ (Latin
diabolus, from Greek diabolos ‘slanderer’, ‘enemy’),
referring to a mischievous youth or perhaps to someone who had acted
the role of the Devil in a pageant or mystery play.French:
variant of Ville, with the preposition de.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Deville Families
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England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Deville families
 33 - 64  12 - 32 |
 1 - 11  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Deville Family Origin
Deville Emigration Information (US)
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Deville Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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