Miller Family History
Miller Name Meaning
English and Scottish: occupational name for a miller. The
standard modern vocabulary 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. adm 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.Southwestern and Swiss German and
Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Müller (see Mueller).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Miller Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Miller families
 10,958 - 21,913  3,653 - 10,957 |
 1 - 3,652  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Miller families
|
3,631 - 7,260 1,211 - 3,630 |
1 - 1,210 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Miller families
|
3,205 - 6,407 1,069 - 3,204 |
1 - 1,068 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Miller Family Origin
Miller Immigration Information
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Miller Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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