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I did a quick search too, and here's what I came up with.

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Etymologically speaking, I think Marvolo may be related to Malvolio, Italian for "ill will".

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However, it may be simply a name needed to make Tom Marvolo Riddle an anagram of I Am Lord Voldemort. (Voldemort probably means "flight of death" in French, from the phrase vol de mort; it's properly pr. VOL-duh-mor as per J.K. Rowling, but is pr. VOL-de-mort in the movies.)

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However, in the book, Riddle's was named Tom after his his maternal grandfather and Marvolo after his maternal great-grandfather.

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You do not want to name your kid Marvolo, however. Tom Marvolo Riddle grew up to be Voldemort, the Adolf Hitler-like main villain in Harry Potter.

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See more at the Harry Potter Lexicon: http://snipurl.com/fz8v.

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Miranda
"Come... you must eat my child." — From a badfic

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Proud adopter of 15 punctuation marks; see my profile for their names.