Melville

Where Melville comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Melville.

  • Vowel-ended
Melville through the years
  1. 1833
    Melville Fuller born
    chief justice of the United States from 1888 to 1910
  2. 1880
    First SSA year, and the peak
    #425 among boys with 17 babies in the first year on record, and still its best.
  3. 1881
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #781.
  4. 1917
    Melville Shavelson born
    American film director, producer, screenwriter, and author
In the dictionary

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Namesakes
  • Melville Fuller · chief justice of the United States from 1888 to 1910, 1833–1910
  • Melville Shavelson · American film director, producer, screenwriter, and author, 1917–2007
  • Melville J. Herskovits · American anthropologist, 1895–1963
  • Melville Cooper · British actor, 1896–1973
  • Melville Rogers · figure skater, 1899–1973

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.