Popularity of the last name by country
Chile
- Valparaíso (29)
- Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena (5)
- Araucania (4)
- Coquimbo (4)
- Biobío (3)
- Metropolitana de Santiago (1)
All countries
- United Kingdom (417,216)
- United States (234,754)
- New Zealand (24,405)
- Australia (20,602)
- Ireland (20,245)
- Canada (10,272)
- France (5,317)
- Unknown country (3,828)
- Germany (936)
- Belgium (632)
- Italy (576)
- Switzerland (568)
- Netherlands (553)
- Spain (517)
- Estonia (456)
- India (304)
- Colombia (284)
- Jamaica (279)
- Mexico (245)
- South Africa (187)
- Turkey (175)
- Argentina (170)
- China (170)
- Chile (135)
- Ukraine (131)
- Russian Federation (124)
- Austria (115)
- Indonesia (113)
- Greece (104)
- Peru (102)
- Sweden (102)
- Lebanon (101)
- Egypt (96)
- Brazil (91)
- Paraguay (89)
- Poland (85)
- Denmark (79)
- Czech republic (73)
- Japan (65)
- Cuba (56)
Origine of last name
MILLS : 1: English: variant of <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Mill">Mill</a> 1 with excrescent -s added in post-medieval times. Compare <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Mullins">Mullins</a> from a French equivalent of this name and see also <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Milnes">Milnes</a>.2: English: either a variant of <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Miles">Miles</a> a variant of <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Mill">Mill</a> 2 with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s or <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Myhill">Myhill</a> with post-medieval excrescent -s.3: Irish: this is usually the English name especially in Ulster but elsewhere in Ireland it was also adopted for the Gaelic topographic byname an Mhuilinn ‘of the mill’.4: In some cases also an Americanized form of Serbian or Croatian Milić (see <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Milic">Milic</a>) or of some other surname beginning with Mil-.
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