war. The founding of Louisville, Kentucky, in 1780, for example, used not only the French suffix but the name of the French king, Louis XVI. The popularity of -ville was most popular in the southern and western (Appalachian) regions of the new country, and less popular in New England. A few -ville names pre-date the revolution, but most of them are named after persons whose name refers to European settlements or dukedoms. For example, Granville, Massachusetts was named for the Earl of Granville (he was named himself after Granville, Manche (Normandy)). After the revolution and the decline in the use of -borough and -town, the two suffixes -ville and -burgh/-burg became by far the most popular for many decades. A difference between the usage of the two is that -burgh/-burg was almost always appended to personal names while -ville was added to a variety of words. By the middle of the 19th century the -ville suffix began to lose its popularity, with newly popular suffixes with -wood, -hurst, -mere, -dale, and others taking over. However, the -ville suffix is still associated with the name of settlements in language use and popular culture. Notable -ville cities in the United States Abbeville, Louisiana Amityville, New York Argusville, North Dakota Asheville, North Carolina Barbourville, Kentucky Barhamsville, Virginia Beattyville, Kentucky Belleville, Illinois Bennettsville, South Carolina Bentonville, Arkansas Bronxville, New York Brownsville, Texas Campbellsville, Kentucky Centreville, Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia Clarksville, Tennessee Collierville, Tennessee Connersville, Indiana Crawfordsville, Indiana Danville, California Danville, Virginia Dawsonville, Georgia Eddyville, Kentucky Evansville, Indiana Fayetteville, Arkansas Fayetteville, Georgia Fayetteville, North Carolina Fortville, Indiana Gainesville, Florida Gainesville, Georgia Gainesville, Virginia Greeneville, Tennessee Greenville, Alabama Greenville, Mississippi Greenville, North Carolina Greenville, South Carolina Hendersonville, North Carolina Hendersonville, Tennessee Hodgenville, Kentucky Hopkinsville, Kentucky Huntersville, North Carolina Huntsville, Alabama Huntsville, Texas Jacksonville, Florida Jacksonville, North Carolina Jeffersonville, Indiana Jordanville, New York Kendallville, Indiana Knoxville, Tennessee Lewisville, Texas Louisville, Kentucky Louisville, Mississippi Mayville, North Dakota McCordsville, Indiana McMinnville, Oregon Naperville, Illinois Nashville, Tennessee Nicholasville, Kentucky Noblesville, Indiana Paintsville, Kentucky Pflugerville, Texas Pikeville, Kentucky Plainville, Massachusetts Porterville, California Reidsville, North Carolina Rockville, Maryland Roseville, California Rushville, Indiana Salyersville, Kentucky Shelbyville, Tennessee Shepherdsville, Kentucky Snellville, Georgia Somerville, Massachusetts Statesville, North Carolina Starkville, Mississippi Steubenville, Ohio Swoyersville, Pennsylvania Thomasville, Georgia Thomasville, North Carolina Vacaville, California Victorville, California Waterville, Maine Whiteville, North Carolina Wilsonville, Oregon Zanesville, Ohio -ville in popular culture Antville, an underground city in the animation Anthony Ant Coolsville,