Granville

Where Granville comes from

The commune of France is from Old French Granville, Grandvilla, Grande Villa, Grandivilla, from grant (“grand”) + ville (“settlement”). The surname is of Norman baronial origin, from Grainville, a former commune in Normandy, from the given name Guarin + ville, meaning “Guarin's town”. Guarin ultimately derives from Proto-Germanic *warduz (“guard”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Granville
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1856
    Granville Tailer Woods born
    American inventor
  2. 1868
    Granville Bantock born
    British composer and conductor
  3. 1880
    First SSA year, and the peak
    #325 among boys with 27 babies — the first year on record, and still its best.
  4. 1979
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #4,068.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name transferred from the surname.
Namesakes
  • Granville Tailer Woods · American inventor, 1856–1910
  • Granville Bantock · British composer and conductor, 1868–1946
  • Granville Sharp · English abolitionist, 1735–1813
  • Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville · British Liberal statesman, 1815–1891
  • Granville Redmond · American artist, 1871–1935

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.