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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : variant of Mills.
  • Dutch : habitational name from Milheeze in the province of North Brabant.
  • Dutch : from a short form of the personal name Amilius or Amelis (Latinized forms of a Germanic name with the initial element amal ‘strength’, ‘vigor’) or of the Latin personal name Aemilius (see Milian).

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