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    The surname Millis

    A surname, carried by 2,358 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex M420

    Millis: #13,023 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Millis #13,023, 2,358 people Millis: #13,023 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Millis #13,023, 2,358 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Millis is more common than 92% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 2,358 people named Millis in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 130,935 Americans. That is up 3.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,269.

    #13,023
    rank among US surnames
    2,358
    people in 2010
    0.8
    per 100,000 Americans
    +3.9%
    change since 2000 (was #12,524)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #13,023Knutsen2,358130,935
    #13,029Arvin2,357130,991

    Who is named Millis

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

    91% of people named Millis identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.8% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 91%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 4.8%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
    • Two or more races 1.8%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Millis

    Millis has the Soundex code M420, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M420.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Millis?
    2,358 people in the United States had the surname Millis in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 130,935 Americans. It ranked 13,023rd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Millis?
    In the 2010 Census, 91% of people named Millis identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.8% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Millis getting more or less common?
    More common. 2,269 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,358 in 2010, up 3.9%.