Miles Family History
Miles Name Meaning
English (of Norman origin): via Old French from the Germanic
personal name Milo, of unknown etymology. The name was
introduced to England by the Normans in the form Miles (oblique
case Milon). In English documents of the Middle Ages the name
sometimes appears in the Latinized form Milo (genitive
Milonis), although the normal Middle English form was
Mile, so the final -s must usually represent the
possessive ending, i.e. ‘son or servant of Mile’.English:
patronymic from the medieval personal name Mihel, an Old French
contracted form of Michael.English: occupational name for
a servant or retainer, from Latin miles ‘soldier’, sometimes
used as a technical term in this sense in medieval documents.Irish (County Mayo): when not the same as 1 or 3, an Anglicized
form of Gaelic Ó Maolmhuire, Myles being used as the
English equivalent of the Gaelic personal name Maol Muire (see
Mullery).Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic):
unexplained.Dutch: variant of Miels, a variant of
Miele 3.
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Miles
Name Distribution of Miles Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Miles families
 1,447 - 2,891  483 - 1,446 |
 1 - 482  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Miles families
|
30 - 58 11 - 29 |
1 - 10 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Miles Family Origin
Miles Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Miles Emigration Information (AU)
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Miles Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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Military Service by Miles
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