{{short description|Family name}} {{for|a list of people with the surname Miller|List of people with surname Miller}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2020}} {{Infobox surname | name = Miller |image=Millers_in_WWI.jpg |image_size=200 | meaning = Miller | region =United Kingdom (England or Scotland); other European countries, including Germany and Switzerland (when anglicized from Müller, Meller, Mueller) | variant=Müller, Meller, Mueller |footnotes=<ref name="worldnames">[http://worldnames.publicprofiler.org/Default.aspx World Family Names: Miller]</ref><ref name="gbnames">{{cite web |url=http://gbnames.publicprofiler.org/Map.aspx?name=MILLER&year=1998&altyear=1881&country=GB&type=name |title=Great Britain Family Names - Public Profiler |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |accessdate=8 March 2014}}</ref><ref name="britishsurnames">[http://britishsurnames.co.uk/surname/miller British Surnames - Miller]</ref><ref name="scotland">{{cite web |url=https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/statistics-and-data/statistics/statistics-by-theme/vital-events/names/most-common-surnames/list-of-data-table |title= Most common surnames – Top Twenties for selected years |publisher=National Records of Scotland |access-date=1 July 2022}}</ref> <ref name="ancestry">[http://www.ancestry.com/facts/Miller-name-meaning.ashx ancestry.com, Miller Name Meaning and Origin] "The American surname has absorbed many cognate surnames from other European languages"</ref><ref name="mencken">H.L. Mencken, American Language, 2012, p. 477 "A large proportion of our Millers would be more exactly known as Müller, Mühler or Möller, and another substantial group as Millar"</ref> |caption=Millers in WWI}}
'''Miller''' and '''Millar''' are surnames of English, German, Irish, Scottish or Yiddish origin.
Miller is a common surname in: the United States (where it is the 7th most common surname), Bahamas (14th), Falkland Islands (17th), Cayman Islands and Canada (18th), Jamaica (22nd), Scotland (24th), New Zealand (36th) and Australia (38th).<ref name="scotland"/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html |title=Frequently Occurring Surnames from the 2010 Census |publisher=United States Census Bureau |access-date=1 July 2022}}</ref>
==History== There are two homonymous forms of ''Miller'', one that began as an occupational surname for a miller<ref name="worldnames"/><ref name="gbnames"/><ref name="britishsurnames"/><ref name="scotland"/> and another that began as a toponymic surname for people from a locale in Glasgow. ''Miller'' of the occupational origin may also be translated from many cognate surnames from other European languages,<ref name="ancestry"/><ref name="mencken"/> such as ''Mueller'', ''Müller'', ''Mühler'', ''Moller'', ''Möller'', ''Møller'', Myller, and others. There is also a form in the early English linguistics as ''Milleiir''.
The standard modern word represents the northern Middle English term, an agent derivative of mille 'mill', reinforced by Old Norse {{lang|non|mylnari}} (see Milner). In southern, western, and central England, Millward (literally, 'mill keeper') was the usual term.<ref name="ancestry"/>
The name Miller also has a history in Northern Ireland, notably County Antrim where many migrants from Northern England and Scotland settled in the 17th century Ulster plantations.<ref>E. MacLysaght, The surnames of Ireland, 1973</ref>
In 2020, Miller was the 24th most common surname on the birth, death and marriage registers in Scotland; Millar is 75th.<ref name="scotland"/>
==In the United States== According to the 2010 U.S. Census, Miller was the 7th most common surname in the United States, the number of occurrences was 1,161,437.<ref name="scotland"/>
In 2007, about 1 in every 25 Americans were named Smith, Johnson, Williams, Brown, Jones, Miller or Davis. Miller was the seventh most common surname.<ref>{{cite news |last=Roberts |first=Sam |date=17 November 2007 |title=In U.S. Name Count, Garcias Are Catching Up With Joneses |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/17/us/17surnames.html |newspaper=The New York Times |accessdate=8 March 2014}}</ref>
The surname Miller in the United States can also be the result of anglicization of: *surnames of German origin as Müller, "Mueller", "Moeller", "Muller" and "Mahler", all of which are cognates of Miller *surnames from other European languages, for example: French - Meunier, Dumoulin, Demoulins and Moulin, Dutch - Molenaar, Mulder and Smulders, Danish - Møller, Italian - Molin, Molinaro and Molinari, Spanish - Molinero or Molino (= mill), Romanian - Morariu, Hungarian - Molnár, Slavic - Mlinar, Mlinarić or Melnik, Greek - Mylonas (Μυλωνάς) etc.<ref name="ancestry"/><ref name="mencken"/>
Miller is also the third most common surname among Jews in the United States (after Cohen and Levy), from the Yiddish cognate of Müller, which would be Miller (מיללער) or Milner<ref>[http://www.jewfaq.org/jnames.htm Jewish Names]</ref> (מילנער).
Miller is also the most common surname in the Amish, originating from Müller in Switzerland.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Facts |first1=Amish |title=10 Common Amish Surnames |url=https://amishamerica.com/common-amish-surnames/ |website=Amish America |date=8 May 2013 |accessdate=8 November 2020}}</ref>
==See also== *List of most popular surnames
==References== {{reflist}}
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