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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : patronymic from the personal name Miles (of Norman origin but uncertain derivation; possibly related to Michael or Latin miles ‘soldier’, or even the Slavic name element mil ‘grace’, ‘favor’), or a metronymic from the female personal name Milla.
  • English : metronymic from the old female personal name Milde, Milda, from Old English milde ‘mild’, ‘gentle’.

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