Miller Family History
- Miller Name Meaning
- English and Scottish: occupational name for a miller. The standard modern vocabulary word represents the northern Middle English term, an agent derivative of mille ‘mill’, reinforced by Old Norse mylnari (see Milner). In southern, western, and central England Millward (literally, ‘mill keeper’) was the usual term. The American surname has absorbed many cognate surnames from other European languages, for example French Meunier, Dumoulin, Demoulins, and Moulin; German Mueller; Dutch Molenaar; Italian Molinaro; Spanish Molinero; Hungarian Molnár; Slavic Mlinar, etc. Southwestern and Swiss German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Müller (see Mueller).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 30,084,307 Historical Documents with Miller on Ancestry
- 10,552,301 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 6,564,139 Census and Voter Lists
- 1,350,861 Military Records
- 659,717 Immigration Records
- 10,957,289 Member Trees
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Number of Miller families
 3,631 - 7,260  1,211 - 3,630 |
 1 - 1,210  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Miller families
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1,177 - 2,351 393 - 1,176 |
1 - 392 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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