Millier
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in French: thousand; a number of about a thousand
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/milje/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Millier is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- FRFrance
- USUnited States
- CACanada
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
habitation name from an unidentified place named with the OE elements mylen Mill + gear weir.
Sources 1
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Millier is read(measured from records)
Millier is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 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.
- French40%
thousand; a number of about a thousand
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Dérivé de millet; surnom d’un producteur ou d’un marchand.
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
- English39%
habitation name from an unidentified place named with the OE elements mylen Mill + gear weir.
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Synonym of metric ton, 1000 kg.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Ukrainian5.2%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Millier in Ukrainian.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
Millier 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 fro, thousand; a number of about thousand.
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Arthur H. Millierb. 1893USAmerican painter, printmaker, etcher (1893-1975)
- Jean Millierb. 1917FRFrench architect (1917-2006)
- Anne Millierb. 1950USfigure skater
- Harvey Millierb. 1950USfigure skater
- Paul Millierb. 1955FRFrench academic
- Cyril Millierb. 1976FRFrench politician
- Zeze Millzb. 1989GBnot in their usual nameBritish television presenter
- John Millierfigure skating official
- Margarida MillierESaccused of witchcraft
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 19 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 413 | #53,969 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 223 | #79,394 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 190 | #95,955 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 120 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 118 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 113 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 110 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 108 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 91 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 90 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 72 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 68 | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- Where does the name Millier come from?
- habitation name from an unidentified place named with the OE elements mylen Mill + gear weir. Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.
- How do you pronounce Millier?
- A machine transcription gives /milje/ (IPA) for French.
- What does the name Millier mean?
- In French, thousand; a number of about a thousand
- In which country does Millier have the most bearers?
- Millier is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/millierThe 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, “Millier”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.