How common is the surname McMiller?

1,911 people in the United States had the surname McMiller in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 161,562 Americans. It ranked 15,347th of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname McMiller getting more or less common?

More common. 1,666 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,911 in 2010, up 15%.

The surname McMiller

A Scottish Gaelic occupational surname, carried by 1,911 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex M254

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). McMiller is more common than 90.5% of them.

Origin

Scottish Gaelic origin

Scottish patronymic from the occupational surname Miller.

McMiller is an occupational surname: named after the work an ancestor did.

One of 277 Scottish Gaelic surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,911 people named McMiller in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 161,562 Americans. That is up 15% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,666.

#15,347

rank among US surnames

1,911

people in 2010

0.7

per 100,000 Americans

+14.7%

change since 2000 (was #16,001)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#15,340	Mungia	1,912	161,478
#15,347	McMiller	1,911	161,562
#15,355	Lisi	1,910	161,647

Who is named McMiller

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

84% of people named McMiller identified as Black (not Hispanic), 10% as white (not Hispanic) and 3.2% as two or more races.

Black (not Hispanic) 84%
White (not Hispanic) 10%
Two or more races 3.2%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.7%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among Black Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like McMiller

McMiller has the Soundex code M254, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M254.

Other Scottish Gaelic surnames

All 277 Scottish Gaelic surnames

Questions

Where does the surname McMiller come from?: Scottish patronymic from the occupational surname Miller.
How common is the surname McMiller?: 1,911 people in the United States had the surname McMiller in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 161,562 Americans. It ranked 15,347th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname McMiller?: In the 2010 Census, 84% of people named McMiller identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 10% as white (not Hispanic).
What type of surname is McMiller?: McMiller is an occupational surname, named after the work an ancestor did.
Is the surname McMiller getting more or less common?: More common. 1,666 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,911 in 2010, up 15%.