Somerville Family History

Scottish: of Norman origin, a habitational name from Graveron-Sémerville in Eure (Normandy), from the ancient Germanic personal name Sigimar (see Siemer) + Old French ville ‘settlement’. The surname was taken from England to Scotland in the 12th century by William de Somerville, a retainer of David, Earl of Huntingdon, who became King David I of Scotland.

Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Somacháin (see Summers) or Mag Shamradháin (see Somers).