Millet Family History
Millet Name Meaning
French: metonymic occupational name for a grower or seller of
millet or panic grass, from a diminutive form of Old French mil
(Latin milium). In some cases it may have been a nickname for
someone suffering from a skin disease, with blisters resembling grains
of millet. Compare the English term miliary fever.French
and English: from a pet form of the personal name Miles.Catalan: topographic name for someone who lived by a field of
millet, Catalan millet (Latin milietum, a derivative of
milium ‘millet’).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Millet
Name Distribution of Millet Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Millet families
 37 - 72  13 - 36 |
 1 - 12  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Millet families
|
30 - 57 11 - 29 |
1 - 10 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Millet families
|
5 - 8 2 - 4 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Millet Family Origin
Millet Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Millet
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Millet Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Millet census records
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