Carville (name)
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Carville is originally a Normandy place name, which is a toponymic compound of Old French -ville "farm" (see villain, villein) and the Old Norse and Old Danish personal name Kári.[1][2][3][4] Notable people with the name include:
Surname[edit]
- Allan Carville, New Zealand footballer
- Audrey Carville, Irish journalist
- Daragh Carville (born 1969), Irish playwright and screenwriter
- Edward P. Carville (1945–1947), American politician
- James Carville (born 1944), American political consultant
- Rory Carville, Irish chef
- Triona Carville, full name of Triona (singer) (born 1995), Irish singer-songwriter
Given name[edit]
- A. Carville Foster Jr. (born 1932), American politician
- Carville Benson (1872–1929), American politician
References[edit]
- ^ Jean Adigard des Gautries, Les noms de personnes scandinaves en Normandie de 911 à 1066, Lund, 1954, p. 116.
- ^ François de Beaurepaire, Les noms de communes et anciennes paroisses de l’Eure, Picard, Paris, 1981, p. 84.
- ^ Kerstin Schlyter, "Les Noms des Scandinaves en Normandie", in Onomastique et langues en contact, Actes du colloque de Strasbourg (1991), Association bourguignonne de dialectologie et d'onomastique, 1992, p. 241b.
- ^ Ernest Nègre, Toponymie générale de la France, Droz, Genève, t. II, 1991, p. 1012, § 18229.
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