Millar: Last Name Origin and Family Crest

There is no single Millar family crest for every bearer. Herald Lab researches the arms historically associated with the name and explains whose they were.

Meaning of the name

Millar is one more way Miller has been written over the centuries. The name is usually explained as “Grain miller”.

Before spelling was fixed, Miller was also written Millar. 6,883 Americans were listed as Millar in the 2010 census. In the Spanish register, Millar appears 185 times as a first surname and 50 times as a second one. Each Spaniard has two surnames, so the same name is counted once as first and once as second surname.

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