Miller (surname)

Miller

Origin
Meaning	derived from the occupation of a miller

The surname Miller is primarily of Scottish origin, from Orkney, Caithness, Perth and Kinross, Stirling, North Lanarkshire and South Lanarkshire. It derives from the occupation of miller. The name also denotes Italian, German, English and Spanish ancestry.

The name Miller also originates from some places in England, notably Dorset and western Lancashire.

The name has been carried throughout the world with Scottish and English emigrants.

In the English-speaking world, the surname "Miller" is also the result of anglicizing last names of Germanic descent. "Mahler," "Mueller," "Muller" and "Moeller" have all been rendered variously as "Miller." It is also the south German and Swiss form of Müller.

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.

Because of this cognate absorption, the surname "Miller" can denote ancestry of almost any European nation, mainly England, Scotland, Italy, Spain and Germany. For example: one may have the surname "Miller" and have complete Italian ancestry, even though the surname does not end in a vowel like most Italian surnames.

According to genealogy.com, Miller is currently the 7th most common surname in the United States.

Distribution of the surname Miller

• Distribution of the surname Miller in Great Britain, 1881
• Distribution of the surname Miller in Great Britain, 1998

Notable Millers

• see Miller (surname)

Places named Miller

• see Miller (disambiguation)

See also

• Millar
• Myler