Trevelyan

English

Etymology

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

Proper noun

Trevelyan (plural Trevelyans)

1. A surname from Cornish.

Statistics

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

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Trevelyan”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.