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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