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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish (common in Aberdeenshire) : occupational name for a miller or someone who lived at a mill, Old English mylen ‘mill’ (see Mill, Milner). The Scottish name found its way to Ireland; MacLysaght records that it has been in Dublin since the early 18th century. In some cases it has absorbed Irish Moyle.

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