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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : variant of Mullen.
  • English : from Old French Milon, an inflected form of the personal name Miles (see Miles 1).
  • English : from Middle English milne, adjectival form of mille ‘mill’, or perhaps a topographic name for someone living in a lane leading to a mill, from Middle English mille, milne ‘mill’ + lane, lone ‘lane’.
  • Dutch : patronymic from Miele 3.

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