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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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