Kind of interesting -- Mellor:
English: habitational name from places in Lancashire, West Yorkshire, and Derbyshire, earlier recorded as Melver, and named from ancient British words that are ancestors of Welsh moel ‘bare’ + bre ‘hill’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
Mine is the first reasoning (the Latin):
Perna:
Italian: from the female personal name, Latin Perna. See also Perla.
Portuguese: habitational name from any of several places named Perna in Portugal.
Catalan and Portuguese: from perna ‘leg’; possibly a nickname for someone with long legs, or with a deformed or missing leg.
I didn't know about the others!
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