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Many European names came from a person's profession. They started as a way of distinguishing different people with the same given name - e.g. John the fisherman as opposed to John the barber, and eventually these morphed into family names that lost their connection to a person's profession. John the fisherman became John Fisher, John the barrel-maker (cooper) became John Cooper, and so on.
So, Millers were probably at one point involved in grain milling!
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What does last name Miller mean?
Miller is an occupational name. A miller is someone who works in a mill. Villages used to have mills where grain was ground into flour. You can still find millstones around today. Miller is English or Scottish, but the name is similar in other languages and some people translated their name into Miller when they came to America. Some Millers were originally Mueller, Moulin, Meunier,Molenaar, Molinero, Molnar, Muller, Desmoulin, etc..
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