as a Last Name
- 2,980
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Millet
Meaning & Origins
French: metonymic occupational name for a grower or seller of millet or panic grass, from a diminutive form of Old French mil (Latin milium). In some cases it may have been a nickname for someone suffering from a skin disease, with blisters resembling grains of millet. Compare the English term miliary fever.
| 9,368th in the U.S. for 2011 |
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- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 2,980
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Louisiana
- has the most people named Millet per capita
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