Millett
surname · Latin script
Meaning: diminutive of Mile; see MILES; first attested Milot c1248
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈmɪɫɪt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Millett is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 87K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 195K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 1.4M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Millett itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 15 (measured from records)
- 1 in 87K (inferred from the name graph)
3,834 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
diminutive of Mile; see MILES; first attested Milot c1248
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Where in the world(measured from records)
Millett 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 3,834 | 1 in 87K | 3.8K | Millett | 9 |
| GD Grenada | 51as Millette | 1 in 2.2K | 51 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 28 | 1 in 195K | 28 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 8 | 1 in 6.3M | 8 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 7as Millette | 1 in 5.5M | 4 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 6 | 1 in 1.4M | 6 | — | — |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | 2as Millette | 1 in 51K | 2 | — | — |
3,834 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025). 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)
Millett 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 Irish, Mellot and Mylotte are two of several variant spellings of this name: these are all derived from miles, soldier. From the early fourteenth century families so called were associated with the Ormond country, but from the seventeenth their habitat has been mainly Co. Mayo and with east Galway where they were called MacMyloyd. MIF
as a nameThe Surnames of Ireland
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 Millettb. 1874USAmerican actor (1874-1952)
- Lewis Millettb. 1920USUnited States Army Medal of Honor recipient
- John Millettb. 1921AUAustralian poet (1921-2019)
- Kate Millettb. 1934USAmerican writer, educator, artist, and activist (1934–2017)
- Allan R. Millettb. 1937USAmerican historian
- Martin Millettb. 1955GBBritish archaeologist; Laurence Professor of Classical Archaeology (Faculty of Classics), University of Cambridge
- Rebecca Millettb. 1962USAmerican politician
- Patricia Millettb. 1963USUnited States Circuit Judge
- Terron Millettb. 1968USAmerican boxer
- Michael Millettb. 1977GBEnglish footballer (1977-1995)
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 16 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.8K | #8,590 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.6K | #8,752 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.6K | #8,448 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 28 | #36,630 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 8 | #134,434 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 6 | #89,778 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Millett mean, and where does it come from?
- diminutive of Mile; see MILES; first attested Milot c1248 Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Millett?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈmɪɫɪt/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Millett have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.8 thousand people named Millett, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled millett.
- Where is Millett most common?
- Millett is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 87 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Millett?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,834 people named Millett in 2010, about 1 in 87 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/millettThe 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, “Millett”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.