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The MILLAR surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 6,168 5204 0.002 23
United States (1880 census) 1,332 4274 0.003 27
Change since 1880 +4836 -930 -0.001 -4
Other Countries
Australia 3,166 484 0.019 194
United Kingdom 15,781 364 0.034 344
Top States for MILLAR by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 994 3038 0.003 29
Florida 434 4535 0.003 27
New York 339 5555 0.002 18
New Jersey 305 3050 0.004 36
Michigan 297 3914 0.003 30
Top States for MILLAR by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alaska 50 1573 0.008 80
South Dakota 49 2320 0.006 65
Utah 127 2245 0.006 57
Delaware 41 3212 0.005 52
Washington 250 2878 0.004 42

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called MILLAR live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called MILLAR represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called MILLAR in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a MILLAR by picking someone at random in Alaska than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of MILLAR

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the MILLAR surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the MILLAR surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of MILLAR in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 170 2.76
Black/African American 168 2.72
Mixed Race 88 1.43
Asian/Pacific 75 1.22
Native American/Alaskan 19 0.31
White (Caucasian) 5,648 91.57

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the MILLAR surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of MILLAR in historical publications

MILLAR. The Scotch form of Miller.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to MILLAR

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MILLAR.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for MILLAR

The following words are slight variants of MILLAR that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.