Mille
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in French: from the Germanic personal name Milo (see Miles 1)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mil/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mille is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 13K(inferred from the name graph)
- BEBelgium1 in 40K
- ITItaly≈1 in 177K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 104 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,200 people, est.
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
person who lives near a mill; usually 'miller' or 'mill-worker'
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
How Mille is read(measured from records)
Mille is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- French64%
from the Germanic personal name Milo (see Miles 1).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
- Danish60%
a female given name derived from Emilie
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English20%
person who lives near a mill; usually 'miller' or 'mill-worker'
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mille counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statbel — Noms de famille (family names); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Mille is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, Mille är från början en inofficiell form till → Emil. Det har först på senare tid börjat användas mer regelbundet som officiellt förnamn. Den folkkäre skådespelaren Mille Schmidt (1922–2003) bar officiellt namnet Emil.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In Italian, V. Giovanni e Gianni, e anche Nanni e Vanni.
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
In Russian, var of Mile.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Arthur Milleb. 1854FRFrench politician
- Constantin Milleb. 1861RORomanian writer
- Pierre Milleb. 1864FRFrench writer (1864-1941)
- Jacqueline Milleb. 1928FRFrench actress
- Raoul Milleb. 1941FRFrench journalist and writer (1941–2012)
- Mari Trinib. 1947ESnot in their usual nameSpanish singer-songwriter
- Richard Milleb. 1951CHindustrialist
- Patrick Milleb. 1970PTFrench actor
- Giorgio Milleb. 2000ITItalian film director and screenwriter
- Inés Píñar Milleactress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 55 sources across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 177 | #40,182 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2024 | 19 | #482 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 9 | #40,182 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 5 | — |
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 1 | — |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Mille come from?
- person who lives near a mill; usually 'miller' or 'mill-worker' Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Mille have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.2 thousand people named Mille in France, more than in any other country we hold.
- How do you pronounce Mille?
- A machine transcription gives /mil/ (IPA) for French.
- What does the name Mille mean?
- In French, from the Germanic personal name Milo (see Miles 1).
- How common is the name Mille?
- In the United States, the national register counted 445 people named Mille in 2010, about 1 in 748 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Mille?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/milleThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Mille”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.