First name origin & meaning: French: Settlement of oak trees First name variations: Glannville, Glanvil, Glanvill, Glanvyl, Glanvyll, Glanvylle Last name origins & meanings:
- English (chiefly Devon): (of Norman origin) habitational name
from a place in Calvados, France, named from a Germanic personal name
of uncertain form and meaning + Old French ville
‘settlement’.
- English (chiefly Devon): habitational name from Glanvill Farm in Devon,
Clanville in Somerset and Hampshire, or Clanfield in Hampshire, or
from some other place likewise named with Old English clǣne
‘clean’ (i.e. free of brambles and undergrowth) + feld
‘pasture’, ‘open country’ (see Field).
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