Mills Family History

English: variant of Mill 1 with excrescent -s added in post-medieval times. Compare Mullins from a French equivalent of this name and see also Milnes. English: either a variant of Miles a variant of Mill 2 with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s or Myhill with post-medieval excrescent -s.

Irish: this is usually the English name especially in Ulster but elsewhere in Ireland it was also adopted for the Gaelic topographic byname an Mhuilinn ‘of the mill’. In some cases also an Americanized form of Serbian or Croatian Milić (see Milic) or of some other surname beginning with Mil-.