Marion Miller

(female), (male) Originally a medieval French diminutive form of Marie, introduced to Britain in the Middle Ages. In some places it was taken as a pet form of Margaret or Margery. As a male name, it is an altered form of the Continental male name Marian, a derivative of Latin Marianus (from Marius), but is now rarely, if ever, used. It was the birth name of the American film star John Wayne (1907–79).

English and Scottish: occupational name for a miller. The standard modern vocabulary word represents the northern Middle English term, an agent derivative of mille ‘mill’, reinforced by Old Norse mylnari (see Milner). In southern, western, and central England Millward (literally, ‘mill keeper’) was the usual term. The American surname has absorbed many cognate surnames from other European languages, for example French Meunier, Dumoulin, Demoulins, and Moulin; German Mueller; Dutch Molenaar; Italian Molinaro; Spanish Molinero; Hungarian Molnár; Slavic Mlinar, etc.