Is Miller an Irish name?

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Is Miller an Irish name?

Answer 1

Not specifically -

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The surname Miller is primarily of Scottish origin, from Orkney, Caithness, Perth and Kinross, Stirling, North Lanarkshire and South Lanarkshire.

The origin of the scottish name comes from a burn (rivulet) in glasgow namely the molindinar Mo-lynn-dine-are and the name has evolved over the years to molindar Mo-lynn-dar and to molinar mo-lynn-ar and to Millar and finally to miller.



The reason for the changes are due to the people who recorded births and deaths and is linked because of the popular way of phonetic spelling writing as it is sounded.



It derives from the occupation of miller. The name also denotes Italian, German, English and Spanish ancestry.

The name Miller also originates from some places in England, notably Dorset and western Lancashire.

The name has been carried throughout the world with Scottish and English emigrants.

In the English-speaking world, the surname "Miller" is also the result of anglicizing last names of Germanic descent."Mahler," "Mueller," "Muller" and "Moeller" have all been rendered variously as "Miller."

It is also the south German and Swiss form of Müller.

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.

Because of this cognate absorption, the surname "Miller" can denote ancestry of almost any European nation, mainly England, Scotland, Italy, Spain and Germany.

For example: one may have the surname "Miller" and have complete Italian ancestry, even though the surname does not end in a vowel like most Italian surnames.

Answer 2

Not specifically although found there the Millers who are found specifically in Northern Ireland are mainly descendants of the

" Planter " families who settled there from south west Scotland in the 17th century particularly from the Counties of Ayrshire and Galloway . Thedre were a lot of Miller surnames in south Ayrshire particularly - spelled Millar as well as Miller . It was an English and Scottish: occupational name for a miller. The standard modern vocabulary word r derives from mille or ‘mill’, reinforced by Old Norse mylnari In southern, western, and central England Millward (literally, ‘mill keeper’) was the usual term. The European variant is Müller

Answer 3

Miller can be dutch, german, scottish, jewish, english

Answer 4

http://www.surnamedb.com/surname.aspx?na...

This notable surname is regarded as Anglo-Scottish. It has over twenty-five entries in the British "Dictionary of National Biography", and no less than thirty coats of arms. It is or rather was, occupational, and described a corn miller, or at least someone in charge of a mill. The origination is from the pre 7th century Olde English word "mylene", and the later "milne", but ultimately from the Roman (Latin) "molere", meaning to grind. Job-descriptive surnames denoted the occupation of the namebearer, but only became hereditary when a son followed a father into the same line of business. The miller enjoyed a privileged position in medieval society, the mill being an important center in every medieval settlement.

    Among the early recordings we have Reginald Miller in the Subsidy Tax Rolls of Sussex in 1327, while in May 1635, James Miller, aged 18, was an early emigrant to the new states of America. He embarked from London on the ship "Plaine Joan" bound for Virginia. James Miller (1812 - 1864), born in Scotland, was the surgeon to Queen Victoria, and a notable bearer of the name. One of the earliest coats of arms granted to the family has the blazon of ermine charged with three wolves' heads erased, in silver.

    The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Ralph Muller. This was dated 1296, in the "Subsidy Tax Rolls of Sussex", during the reign of King Edward 1st of England, 1272 - 1307.

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Miller Name Meaning and History

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 Muller (see Mueller).