Muller
surname · Latin script
Meaning: One who, or that which, mulls
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mɐlə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Muller is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Switzerland it is the 14th most common surname.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 159(measured from records)
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 1.4K
- USUnited States1 in 286as Miller
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Muller 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
- 446 (measured from records)
- 1 in 159 (inferred from the name graph)
1,161,437 named Miller, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
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)
One who, or that which, mulls.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Muller 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 | — | 1,161,437as Miller | 1 in 286 | 1.2M | Muller | 446 |
| CH Switzerland | #14 | 52,889 | 1 in 159 | 53K | Muller | 74 |
| FR France | — | ≈45,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | 5.6K | Muller | 11 |
| ZA South Africa | #131 | ≈42,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Muller | 119 |
| AR Argentina | — | 10,208 | 1 in 4.5K | 10K | — | 3 |
| LU Luxembourg | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 612 | 5.8K | — | 26 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | — | 350as Miller | 1 in 290 | 350 | — | — |
1,161,437 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling miller. 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; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Luxembourg top-100 surnames (surnam.es); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); 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)
Muller is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, H. J., US geneticist (Nobel 1946)
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In Swedish, rumble
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Aragonese, woman
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Catalan, wife
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Croatian, američki genetičar, Nobelova nagrada za medicinu 1946.
as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export
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)
- Frank Mullerb. 1862USAmerican astronomer (1862-1917)
- Hermann Joseph Mullerb. 1890USAmerican biologist (1890–1967)
- Martin Millerb. 1899CZnot in their usual nameAustrian-British actor (1899-1969)
- Richard A. Mullerb. 1944USAmerican physicist
- Sophie Mullerb. 1962GBmusic video director
- Michel Mullerb. 1966ATFrench actor, screenwriter, director
- Kirk Mullerb. 1966CACanadian ice hockey player
- Todd Mullerb. 1968NZNew Zealand politician
- Derek Mullerb. 1982AUAustralian-born Canadian science communicator
- Mae Mullerb. 1997GBBritish singer
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 59 sources across 32 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 27K | #1,293 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 27K | #1,198 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 26K | #1,306 |
| LU Luxembourg | Luxembourg top-100 surnames (surnam.es) | — | 5.8K | #2 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 5.6K | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 4K | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 891 | #1,351 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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 surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
- 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
- What does the name Muller mean, and where does it come from?
- One who, or that which, mulls. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Muller?
- A machine transcription gives /mɐlə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Muller have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.2 million people named Miller, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Muller most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Muller is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 159 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Muller?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 52,889 people named Muller in 2024, about 1 in 159 residents.
- How common is Muller compared with other names?
- In Switzerland, Muller is the 14th most common surname of 127,759 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Muller?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mullerThe 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, “Muller” — the 14th most common surname in Switzerland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.