as a Last Name
- 1,271,307
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Miller
Meaning & Origins
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.
| 6th in the U.S. for 2011 |
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Quick facts
- Millions
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 1,271,307
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Guam
- has the most people named Miller per capita
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