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    The surname Mill

    A surname, carried by 3,518 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex M400

    Mill: #9,255 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Mill #9,255, 3,518 people Mill: #9,255 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Mill #9,255, 3,518 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Mill is more common than 94.3% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 3,518 people named Mill in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 87,762 Americans. That is down 57% since 2000, when the Census counted 8,095.

    #9,255
    rank among US surnames
    3,518
    people in 2010
    1.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    -56.5%
    change since 2000 (was #4,026)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #9,251Cui3,52087,712
    #9,253Talton3,51987,737
    #9,255Mill3,51887,762
    #9,257Bakke3,51787,787
    #9,258Krawczyk3,51687,812
    #9,262Gingrich3,51587,837

    Who is named Mill

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

    72% of people named Mill identified as white (not Hispanic), 19% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 72%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 19%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.0%
    • Two or more races 2.8%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.5%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.8%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Mill

    Mill has the Soundex code M400, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M400.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Mill?
    3,518 people in the United States had the surname Mill in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 87,762 Americans. It ranked 9,255th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Mill?
    In the 2010 Census, 72% of people named Mill identified as white (not Hispanic), and 19% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Mill getting more or less common?
    Less common. 8,095 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,518 in 2010, down 57%.