Trevelyan

English

Etymology

From Cornish trev (“farmstead; town”) + the Cornish personal name Elyan.

Proper noun

Trevelyan (countable and uncountable)

  1. A surname from Cornish.
  2. (Durham University, informal) Ellipsis of Trevelyan College, Durham.

Statistics

  • According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Trevelyan is the 8173rd most common surname in England, belonging to 781 individuals.

Further reading

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