Millen Family History

Irish: variant of Mullen. English: from Old French Milon, an inflected form of the personal name Miles (see Miles 1). English: from Middle English milne, adjectival form of mille ‘mill’, or perhaps a topographic name for someone living in a lane leading to a mill, from Middle English mille, milne ‘mill’ + lane, lone ‘lane’. Dutch: patronymic from Miele 3.

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press