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Mills Name Meaning
English and Scottish: variant of Mill 1.English:
either a metronymic form of Mill 2, or a variant of
Miles.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’.
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Name Distribution of Mills Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Mills families
 714 - 1,425  239 - 713 |
 1 - 238  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Mills families
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3,134 - 6,265 1,045 - 3,133 |
1 - 1,044 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Mills families
|
302 - 602 101 - 301 |
1 - 100 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Mills Family Origin
Mills Immigration Information
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Mills Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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