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mills Name Meaning and History

  1. English and Scottish: variant of Mill 1.
  2. English: either a metronymic form of Mill 2, or a variant of Miles.
  3. Irish: in Ulster this is the English name, but elsewhere in Ireland it may be a translation of a Gaelic topographic byname, an Mhuilinn ‘of the mill’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of mills Families in the US in 1920
Number of mills families
 714-1425
 239-713		 1-238
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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