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in reply to a message by Amy
I live in Britain and the only time I've come across Romilly is as this one newsreader's name. However, I Wikipedia-d it and yep, it seems to be a placename in France, as well as the surname of some British aristocrats (whose origins, no doubt, lay in one of the French places called Romilly). Very pretty :-)
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According to Hanks & Hodges' A Dictionary of Surnames, the family name Romilly can either come from the places in northern France (whose meaning was originally "Romilius's place"), or come from the town of Romiley near Manchester, England, in which case the origin was from Old English words meaning "spacious, roomy" and "clearing".
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I've never heard it apart from her, either. It's Romilly Weeks, I think (or something similar).
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