German: metonymic occupational name for a miller or flour
merchant, from Middle High German mel ‘flour’. This surname is
also established in Denmark and Sweden.Norwegian:
habitational name from any of several farmsteads in southwestern
Norway, originally named with Old Norse melr ‘sandbank’,
‘gravel bank’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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