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mells Name Meaning and History

English: topographic name for someone who lived in a place where there was more than one mill, Middle English melles ‘mills’, or habitational name for someone from Mells in Somerset, named with this word.

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Distribution of mells Families in the US in 1840
Number of mells families
 3-3
 2-2
 1
 0
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