Somerville

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Somerville is a Scottish surname most famously associated with Mary Somerville, the pioneering 19th-century science writer and polymath.

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Label Occurrences
Somerville canonical 4

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Scottish surname
surname
associatedWith Norman origin
Scottish nobility
scientific history through Mary Somerville
category English-language surnames
Scottish families
Surnames of Scottish origin
Toponymic surnames
countryOfOrigin Scotland
derivedFrom place name Somerville in Normandy
etymologyContains Old French "somier" (pack horse)
Old French "ville" (settlement)
hasFeminineForm Somerville (unchanged)
hasHeraldicTradition Clan Somerville NERFINISHED
hasNotableBearer Alexander Somerville (journalist) NERFINISHED
Brian Somerville (politician) NERFINISHED
Christopher Somerville (writer) NERFINISHED
Edith Somerville (writer) NERFINISHED
Geraldine Somerville (actress) NERFINISHED
Hugh Somerville, 5th Lord Somerville NERFINISHED
Ian Somerville (engineer) NERFINISHED
James Somerville (historian) NERFINISHED
John Somerville (philosopher) NERFINISHED
John Somerville, 3rd Lord Somerville NERFINISHED
Mary Fairfax Somerville NERFINISHED
Mary Somerville NERFINISHED
William Somerville (poet) NERFINISHED
hasPatronymicForm Somervilles NERFINISHED
hasVariantSpelling Somervell NERFINISHED
Somervile NERFINISHED
de Somerville NERFINISHED
historicallyBorneBy landowning families in Scotland
introducedToScotlandBy Norman settlers
languageOfOrigin English
Scots NERFINISHED
usedAs family name
usedIn Australia NERFINISHED
Canada
Ireland NERFINISHED
New Zealand NERFINISHED
United Kingdom
United States of America
surface form: United States
writtenInScript Latin alphabet

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Mary Somerville familyName Somerville
Bonnie Somerville familyName Somerville
Admiral James Somerville familyName Somerville
subject surface form: James Somerville
Geraldine Somerville familyName Somerville