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’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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