Where is Melville from?

My guess is...

I'm 95% certain Melville is Male.

According to a dataset of 52, the average Melville is around 50 years old.


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Learn about the name Melville

Meaning of the name Melville

From a Scottish surname that was originally from a Norman French place name meaning "bad town". A famous bearer of the surname was the American author Herman Melville (1819-1891), who wrote several novels including Moby-Dick.

Characteristics of the name Melville

OriginsEnglish
PronouncedMEHL-vil
GenderMasculine
Traitsrefined, mature, classic, formal, upper class, strange, nerdy, wholesome

How do we know this about Melville

(and is it secret spies?)

We use a combination of data from the internet, and our own Machine Learning models to make these predictions.
In a gist, we use a Machine Learning model trained on a diverse global dataset of 100m+ names, and use it to predict different traits for a person based on first name!
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