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| meaning = [[Miller]]
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| region =[[United Kingdom]] ([[England]] or [[Scotland]]); other European countries, including [[Germany]] and [[Switzerland]] (when anglicized from [[Müller (surname)|Müller]], Meller, Mueller)
| meaning = derived from the occupation of a [[miller]]
| variant=[[Müller (surname)|Müller]], Meller, Mueller
| region =][[England]], [[Ireland]], [[Scotland]]
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|footnotes=<ref name="worldnames">[http://worldnames.publicprofiler.org/Default.aspx World Family Names: Miller]</ref><ref name="gbnames">{{cite web |url=http://gbnames.publicprofiler.org/Map.aspx?name=MILLER&year=1998&altyear=1881&country=GB&type=name |title=Great Britain Family Names - Public Profiler |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |accessdate=8 March 2014}}</ref><ref name="britishsurnames">[http://britishsurnames.co.uk/surname/miller British Surnames - Miller]</ref><ref name="scotland">{{cite web |url=https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/statistics-and-data/statistics/statistics-by-theme/vital-events/names/most-common-surnames/list-of-data-table |title= Most common surnames – Top Twenties for selected years |publisher=[[National Records of Scotland]] |access-date=1 July 2022}}</ref>
<ref name="ancestry">[http://www.ancestry.com/facts/Miller-name-meaning.ashx ancestry.com, Miller Name Meaning and Origin] "The American surname has absorbed many cognate surnames from other European languages"</ref><ref name="mencken">H.L. Mencken, American Language, 2012, p. 477 "A large proportion of our Millers would be more exactly known as Müller, Mühler or Möller, and another substantial group as Millar"</ref>
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'''[[Miller]]''' and '''Millar''' are surnames of [[English language|English]], [[German language|German]], [[Irish language|Irish]] or [[Scots language|Scottish]] origin.
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|footnotes=<ref name="worldnames">[http://worldnames.publicprofiler.org/Default.aspx World Family Names: Miller]</ref><ref name="gbnames">{{cite web |url=http://gbnames.publicprofiler.org/Map.aspx?name=MILLER&year=1998&altyear=1881&country=GB&type=name |title=Great Britain Family Names - Public Profiler |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |accessdate=8 March 2014}}</ref><ref name="britishsurnames">[http://britishsurnames.co.uk/surname/miller British Surnames - Miller]</ref><ref name="scotland">[http://www.gro-scotland.gov.uk/statistics/theme/vital-events/births/popular-names/archive/surnames.html 100 Most Common Surnames - General Register Office for Scotland] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120925045427/http://www.gro-scotland.gov.uk/statistics/theme/vital-events/births/popular-names/archive/surnames.html |date=25 September 2012 }}</ref><ref name="ancestry">[http://www.ancestry.com/facts/Miller-name-meaning.ashx ancestry.com, Miller Name Meaning and Origin] "The American surname has absorbed many cognate surnames from other European languages"</ref><ref name="mencken">H.L. Mencken, American Language, 2012, p. 477 "A large proportion of our Millers would be more exactly known as Müller, Mühler or Möller, and another substantial group as Millar"</ref>
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Miller is a common surname in: the [[United States]] (where it is the 7th most common surname), [[Bahamas]] (14th), [[Falkland Islands]]/[[United Kingdom]] (17th), [[Cayman Islands]] and [[Canada]] (18th), [[Jamaica]] (22nd), [[Scotland]]/[[United Kingdom]] (24th), [[New Zealand]] (36th) and [[Australia]] (38th).<ref name="scotland"/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html |title=Frequently Occurring Surnames from the 2010 Census |publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]] |access-date=1 July 2022}}</ref>
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'''Miller''' and '''Millar''' are surnames of [[English language]], [[Irish language|Irish]] or [[Scots language|Scottish]] origin.


==History==
==History==
There are two [[homonym]]ous forms of ''Miller'', one that began as an [[Surname#Occupational surname|occupational surname]] for a [[miller]]<ref name="worldnames"/><ref name="gbnames"/><ref name="britishsurnames"/><ref name="scotland"/> and another that began as a [[toponymic surname]] for people from a locale in [[Glasgow]]. ''Miller'' of the occupational origin may also be translated from many [[cognate]] surnames from other [[European languages]],<ref name="ancestry"/><ref name="mencken"/> such as ''[[Mueller (surname)|Mueller]]'', ''[[Müller (surname)|Müller]]'', ''[[Mühler]]'', ''[[Moller]]'', ''[[Möller]]'', ''[[Møller]]'', [[Myller]], and others. There is also a form in the early English lingusitics as ''Milleiir''.
There are two [[homonym]]ous forms of ''Miller'', one that began as an [[Surname#Occupational surname|occupational surname]] for a [[miller]]<ref name="worldnames"/><ref name="gbnames"/><ref name="britishsurnames"/><ref name="scotland"/> and another that began as a [[toponymic surname]] for people from a locale in [[Glasgow]]. ''Miller'' of the occupational origin may also be translated from many [[cognate]] surnames from other [[European languages]],<ref name="ancestry"/><ref name="mencken"/> such as ''[[Mueller (surname)|Mueller]]'', ''[[Müller (surname)|Müller]]'', ''[[Mühler]]'', ''[[Moller]]'', ''[[Möller]]'', ''[[Møller]]'', [[Myller]], and others. There is also a form in the early English linguistics as ''Milleiir''.


The standard modern 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.<ref name="ancestry"/>
The standard modern word represents the northern [[Middle English]] term, an agent derivative of mille 'mill', reinforced by [[Old Norse]] {{lang|non|mylnari}} (see Milner). In southern, western, and central England, Millward (literally, 'mill keeper') was the usual term.<ref name="ancestry"/>


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The name Miller also has a history in [[Northern Ireland]], notably [[County Antrim]] where many migrants from Northern England and Scotland settled in the 17th century Ulster plantations.<ref>E. MacLysaght, The surnames of Ireland, 1973</ref>
The origin of the Scottish surname is from a burn (rivulet) in [[Glasgow]], namely the molindinar (Mo-lynn-dine-are), and the name has evolved over the years to molindar/Mo-lynn-dar and to molinar/mo-lynn-ar and to Millar and finally to Miller. The first record of the name was in [[Dumfriesshire]], [[Scotland]].<ref>[http://www.houseofnames.com/xq/asp/kbId.312/title.Sample+History%3A+Miller/qx/knowledgebase.htm Sample History: Miller - Knowledge Base, House of Names]</ref> If the surname has Highland Scottish origins, the bearers are associated with [[Clan MacFarlane]].<ref>[http://www.electricscotland.com/webclans/m/miller2.html Clan Miller: Electric Scotland]</ref> In 1995, Miller was the 22nd most common surname on the birth, death and marriage registers in Scotland; Millar was 77th.<ref name="scotland"/>


In 2020, Miller was the 24th most common surname on the birth, death and marriage registers in Scotland; Millar is 75th.<ref name="scotland"/>
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The name Miller also has a long history in [[Northern Ireland]], notably [[County Antrim]] where many migrants from Northern England and Scotland settled in the 16th and 17th centuries.<ref>E. MacLysaght, The surnames of Ireland, 1973</ref>


==In the United States==
Amongst the earliest recordings of the surname is Reginald Miller in the Subsidy Tax Rolls of [[Sussex]], [[South East England]] in 1327.<ref>[http://www.surnamedb.com/Surname/miller#ixzz10sDNP24G Surname Database: Miller last name origin]</ref>
According to the 2010 U.S. Census, Miller was the 7th most common surname in the United States, the number of occurrences was 1,161,437.<ref name="scotland"/>


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In 2007, about 1 in every 25 [[Americans]] were named Smith, Johnson, Williams, Brown, Jones, Miller or Davis. Miller was the seventh most common surname.<ref>{{cite news |last=Roberts |first=Sam |date=17 November 2007 |title=In U.S. Name Count, Garcias Are Catching Up With Joneses |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/17/us/17surnames.html |newspaper=The New York Times |accessdate=8 March 2014}}</ref>
==In North America==

The surname Miller in Canada and the United States can also be the result of [[anglicization]] of:
The surname Miller in the United States can also be the result of [[anglicization]] of:
*surnames of German origin as [[Müller (surname)|Müller]], "[[Mueller (surname)|Mueller]]", "[[Moeller]]", "[[Muller]]" and "[[Mahler (surname)|Mahler]]", all of which are cognates of Miller
*surnames of German origin as [[Müller (surname)|Müller]], "[[Mueller (surname)|Mueller]]", "[[Moeller]]", "[[Muller]]" and "[[Mahler (surname)|Mahler]]", all of which are cognates of Miller
*surnames from other European languages, for example: French - [[Meunier (disambiguation)|Meunier]], [[Dumoulin (disambiguation)|Dumoulin]], Demoulins and Moulin, Dutch - [[Molenaar]], [[Mulder]] and [[Smulders]], Danish - [[Møller]], Italian - [[Molin (surname)|Molin]], [[Molinaro]] and [[Molinari]], Spanish - Molinero or Molino (= mill), Romanian - [[Moraru (disambiguation)|Morariu]], Hungarian - Molnár, Slavic - Mlinar, [[Mlinarić]] or Melnik, Greek - Mylonas (Μυλωνάς) etc.<ref name="ancestry"/><ref name="mencken"/>
*surnames from other European languages, for example: French - [[Meunier (disambiguation)|Meunier]], [[Dumoulin (disambiguation)|Dumoulin]], Demoulins and Moulin, Dutch - [[Molenaar]], [[Mulder]] and [[Smulders]], Danish - [[Møller]], Italian - [[Molin (surname)|Molin]], [[Molinaro]] and [[Molinari]], Spanish - Molinero or Molino (= mill), Romanian - [[Moraru (disambiguation)|Morariu]], Hungarian - Molnár, Slavic - Mlinar, [[Mlinarić]] or Melnik, Greek - Mylonas (Μυλωνάς) etc.<ref name="ancestry"/><ref name="mencken"/>
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Miller is also the third most common surname among [[Jews in the United States]] (after Cohen and Levy), from the [[Yiddish language|Yiddish]] cognate of Müller, which would be Miller (מיללער) or Milner<ref>[http://www.jewfaq.org/jnames.htm Jewish Names]</ref>(מילנער).
Miller is also the third most common surname among [[Jews in the United States]] (after Cohen and Levy), from the [[Yiddish language|Yiddish]] cognate of Müller, which would be Miller (מיללער) or Milner<ref>[http://www.jewfaq.org/jnames.htm Jewish Names]</ref>(מילנער).


Miller is also the most common surname in the [[Amish]], originating from Müller in [[Switzerland]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Facts |first1=Amish |title=10 Common Amish Surnames |url=https://amishamerica.com/common-amish-surnames/ |website=Amish America |accessdate=8 November 2020}}</ref>
Miller is also the most common surname in the [[Amish]], originating from Müller in [[Switzerland]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Facts |first1=Amish |title=10 Common Amish Surnames |url=https://amishamerica.com/common-amish-surnames/ |website=Amish America |date=8 May 2013 |accessdate=8 November 2020}}</ref>

According to the 1990 U.S. Census, Miller was the 7th most common surname in the United States by 1990, accounting for 0.424% of the population.<ref>[[United States Census Bureau]] (9 May 1995). [[s:1990 Census Name Files dist.all.last (1-100)]]. Retrieved on 4 July 2008.</ref>

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In 2007, about 1 in every 25 [[Americans]] were named Smith, Johnson, Williams, Brown, Jones, Miller or Davis. Miller was the seventh most common surname.<ref>{{cite news |last=Roberts |first=Sam |date=17 November 2007 |title=In U.S. Name Count, Garcias Are Catching Up With Joneses |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/17/us/17surnames.html |newspaper=The New York Times |accessdate=8 March 2014}}</ref>


==See also==
==See also==
* [[List of most popular surnames]]
*[[List of most popular surnames]]


==References==
==References==
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Latest revision as of 16:50, 20 March 2024

For a list of people with the surname Miller, see List of people with surname Miller.

Miller
Millers in WWI
Origin
MeaningMiller
Region of originUnited Kingdom (England or Scotland); other European countries, including Germany and Switzerland (when anglicized from Müller, Meller, Mueller)
Other names
Variant form(s)Müller, Meller, Mueller
[1][2][3][4] [5][6]

Miller and Millar are surnames of English, German, Irish or Scottish origin.

Miller is a common surname in: the United States (where it is the 7th most common surname), Bahamas (14th), Falkland Islands/United Kingdom (17th), Cayman Islands and Canada (18th), Jamaica (22nd), Scotland/United Kingdom (24th), New Zealand (36th) and Australia (38th).[4][7]

History

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There are two homonymous forms of Miller, one that began as an occupational surname for a miller[1][2][3][4] and another that began as a toponymic surname for people from a locale in Glasgow. Miller of the occupational origin may also be translated from many cognate surnames from other European languages,[5][6] such as Mueller, Müller, Mühler, Moller, Möller, Møller, Myller, and others. There is also a form in the early English linguistics as Milleiir.

The standard modern 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.[5]

The name Miller also has a history in Northern Ireland, notably County Antrim where many migrants from Northern England and Scotland settled in the 17th century Ulster plantations.[8]

In 2020, Miller was the 24th most common surname on the birth, death and marriage registers in Scotland; Millar is 75th.[4]

In the United States

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According to the 2010 U.S. Census, Miller was the 7th most common surname in the United States, the number of occurrences was 1,161,437.[4]

In 2007, about 1 in every 25 Americans were named Smith, Johnson, Williams, Brown, Jones, Miller or Davis. Miller was the seventh most common surname.[9]

The surname Miller in the United States can also be the result of anglicization of:

Miller is also the third most common surname among Jews in the United States (after Cohen and Levy), from the Yiddish cognate of Müller, which would be Miller (מיללער) or Milner[10](מילנער).

Miller is also the most common surname in the Amish, originating from Müller in Switzerland.[11]

See also

[edit]

References

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  1. ^ a b World Family Names: Miller
  2. ^ a b "Great Britain Family Names - Public Profiler". Retrieved 8 March 2014.
  3. ^ a b British Surnames - Miller
  4. ^ a b c d e "Most common surnames – Top Twenties for selected years". National Records of Scotland. Retrieved 1 July 2022.
  5. ^ a b c d ancestry.com, Miller Name Meaning and Origin "The American surname has absorbed many cognate surnames from other European languages"
  6. ^ a b c H.L. Mencken, American Language, 2012, p. 477 "A large proportion of our Millers would be more exactly known as Müller, Mühler or Möller, and another substantial group as Millar"
  7. ^ "Frequently Occurring Surnames from the 2010 Census". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved 1 July 2022.
  8. ^ E. MacLysaght, The surnames of Ireland, 1973
  9. ^ Roberts, Sam (17 November 2007). "In U.S. Name Count, Garcias Are Catching Up With Joneses". The New York Times. Retrieved 8 March 2014.
  10. ^ Jewish Names
  11. ^ Facts, Amish (8 May 2013). "10 Common Amish Surnames". Amish America. Retrieved 8 November 2020.
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