The Monville surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 268 people carried this name — #72,568 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 1,111,100 people counted. That is up 22% from 219 in 2000.
What the name means
The meaning of the Monville surname
Borrowed from French Monville a habitational surname from villages in Belgium and Normandy, syncopic form of Montville, from Old French mont and ville.
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Monville» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 370 people named Monville.
6 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 35 départements, most often Seine-Maritime.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Belgium’s population register
At least 107 people named Monville live in Belgium.
Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Liège.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
Who carried it
People named Monville,
with a public archive behind them.
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Hippolyte Boissel de Monville 1794–1863 · botanist
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Jean-Paul Monville 1938– · politician
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Gilles Monville 1981– · golfer
Wikidata (CC0).
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Monville.
- Montion 255 · U.S. census
- Montis 127 · U.S. census
- Montoro 447 · U.S. census
- Montoya 71,844 · U.S. census
- Montreuil 464 · U.S. census
- Monty 1,614 · U.S. census
- Mony 145 · U.S. census
- Monzo 873 · U.S. census
- Moog 653 · U.S. census
- Moonen 364 · U.S. census
- Moons 186 · U.S. census
- Moor 2,365 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
This page says where Monville is.
A volume says what happened to it.
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