McMiller

surname · Latin script

Meaning: patronymic from the occupational byname Miller

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

McMiller is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 174K(measured from records)
  • LRLiberia≈1 in 41K
  • IEIreland≈1 in 62K

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.

United States (measured from records)

1,911 people, 2010

Sources
231 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 41K (inferred from the name graph)

Liberia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

patronymic from the occupational byname Miller.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

McMiller 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.

Where McMiller is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—1,9111 in 174K1.9KMcMiller231
GH Ghana—≈470 est.≈1 in 63K—McMiller2
GB United Kingdom—≈250 est.≈1 in 268K—McMiller18
EG Egypt—≈170 est.≈1 in 631K—McMiller3
LR Liberia#576≈120 est.≈1 in 41K—McMiller1
IE Ireland—≈83 est.≈1 in 62K—McMiller1
JM Jamaica—≈26 est.≈1 in 108K—McMiller1

1,911 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling mcmiller. 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. 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)

McMiller is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, A surname from Scottish Gaelic.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 6 sources across 1 country.

Official registers attesting McMiller
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201.9K#14,740
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101.9K#15,347
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020001.7K#16,001
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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

What does the name McMiller mean, and where does it come from?
patronymic from the occupational byname Miller. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
In which country does McMiller have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 1.9 thousand people named McMiller, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled McMiller.
How common is the name McMiller?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,911 people named McMiller in 2010, about 1 in 174 thousand residents.
How common is McMiller compared with other names?
In Liberia, McMiller is the 576th most common surname of 10,200 surnames recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

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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.

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Cite this page Mondonomo, “McMiller” — the 576th most common surname in Liberia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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