Carville (name)

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.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. Notable people with the name include:

Surname 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 A. Carville Foster Jr. (born 1932), American politician Carville Benson (1872–1929), American politician

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