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Updated June 9, 2019

Boy name origins & meanings

  • Old English : One who mills

Boy name variations

How Popular Is The Name Mills

Family name origins & meanings

  • English and Scottish : variant of Mill 1.
  • English : either a metronymic form of Mill 2, or a variant of Miles.
  • Irish : in Ulster this is the English name, but elsewhere in Ireland it may be a translation of a Gaelic topographic byname, an Mhuilinn ‘of the mill’.

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