as a Last Name
- 1,470
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Mill
Meaning & Origins
Scottish and English: topographic name for someone who lived near a mill, Middle English mille, milne (Old English myl(e)n, from Latin molina, a derivative of molere ‘to grind’). It was usually in effect an occupational name for a worker at a mill or for the miller himself. The mill, whether powered by water, wind, or (occasionally) animals, was an important center in every medieval settlement; it was normally operated by an agent of the local landowner, and individual peasants were compelled to come to him to have their grain ground into flour, a proportion of the ground grain being kept by the miller by way of payment.
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- Hundreds
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 1,470
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Montana
- has the most people named Mill per capita
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