# Miller (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/miller/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | /ˈmɪlɚ/, 2 syllables |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 13,935 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 11,172 / 2,763 (20% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 1,559, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

English surname, capitalization of miller. Doublet of Muller. Also compare Milner, Millward, Müller, Mueller, Mulder, Molenaar, Meunier, Molinaro, Molinero, Molnár, Mlinar, Młynarczyk.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 38 | 3,984 |
| 2012 | 49 | 3,350 |
| 2013 | 56 | 2,998 |
| 2014 | 54 | 3,101 |
| 2015 | 71 | 2,544 |
| 2016 | 80 | 2,358 |
| 2017 | 84 | 2,251 |
| 2018 | 98 | 2,005 |
| 2019 | 101 | 1,945 |
| 2020 | 140 | 1,523 |
| 2021 | 165 | 1,344 |
| 2022 | 212 | 1,147 |
| 2023 | 305 | 881 |
| 2024 | 372 | 759 |
| 2025 | 528 | 571 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 217 | 925 |
| 2012 | 180 | 1,058 |
| 2013 | 213 | 939 |
| 2014 | 249 | 874 |
| 2015 | 272 | 829 |
| 2016 | 264 | 853 |
| 2017 | 260 | 849 |
| 2018 | 253 | 867 |
| 2019 | 311 | 765 |
| 2020 | 365 | 699 |
| 2021 | 469 | 595 |
| 2022 | 468 | 603 |
| 2023 | 559 | 528 |
| 2024 | 723 | 438 |
| 2025 | 864 | 369 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 5 | 4,049 |
| 2012 | 6 | 3,681 |
| 2013 | 4 | 4,739 |
| 2014 | 5 | 4,003 |
| 2015 | 5 | 4,103 |
| 2016 | 3 | 5,785 |
| 2017 | 6 | 3,583 |
| 2018 | 5 | 3,985 |
| 2019 | 5 | 4,001 |
| 2020 | 5 | 3,899 |
| 2021 | 5 | 3,961 |
| 2022 | 4 | 4,645 |
| 2023 | 4 | 4,709 |
| 2024 | 4 | 4,843 |
| 2025 | 7 | 3,333 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 52 | 638 |
| 2012 | 70 | 526 |
| 2013 | 66 | 546 |
| 2014 | 73 | 520 |
| 2015 | 84 | 476 |
| 2016 | 90 | 452 |
| 2017 | 88 | 465 |
| 2018 | 91 | 449 |
| 2019 | 90 | 449 |
| 2020 | 65 | 564 |
| 2021 | 83 | 482 |
| 2022 | 83 | 480 |
| 2023 | 66 | 567 |
| 2024 | 81 | 486 |
| 2025 | 76 | 507 |

## In other languages

- Bulgarian: Мелничаров
- Catalan: Moliner
- Czech: Mlynář, Mlynárik
- Danish: Møller
- Dutch: Molenaar, Mulder
- Esperanto: Milero
- French: Meunier, Dumoulin, Moulin
- German: Mueller, Müller
- Hungarian: Liszt, Molnár
- Italian: Molinaro, Molinari, Mugnai
- Polish: Młynarski, Młynarska
- Russian: Мельников, Мельникова
- Spanish: Molinero, Molina
- Swedish: Möller

## People named Miller

- Miller Anderson, diver (1922-1965)
- Dennis Miller Bunker, American artist (1861-1890)
- Miller Huggins, American baseball player (1878–1929)
- George Miller Beard, American neurologist (1839-1883)
- Ernest Hemingway, American author and journalist (1899–1961)
- Hampton Morris, American weightlifter
- Breckinridge Long, American diplomat (1881-1958)
- Lazar Hayward, American basketball player (born 1986)
- James M. Tunnell, American politician (1879-1957)
- Robert Hazen, American physicist and mineralogist, research scientist at Carnegie Institution for Scienc
- David Smith, Australian sportsman (1884-1963)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.