Mueller

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Miller in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 10 more, Muller in CH Switzerland, NL Netherlands, BE Belgium and 2 more, Müller in DE Germany, AT Austria, ES Spain and Millar in IE Ireland, NZ New Zealand.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Mueller is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• a separate surname22K records spelled Mueller3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Switzerland

  Also written Müeller

• Portuguese surname15K records spelled Mueller2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Switzerland, Portugal

  Also written Müeller

• Hindi surname3.3K records spelled Mueller6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Switzerland

  Languages: Hindi, Urdu, Sinhala

  Also written Müeller

• English surname1.6K records spelled Mueller64 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Australia, South Africa, Netherlands

  Languages: English, Thai, Dutch

  Also written Muller, Miller, Müller, มิลเลอร์, มึลเลอร์

62 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Mueller is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• Name instead of Oscher, south of the Kinzig, Under Rhine, Baden.

  as a name·The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

FR INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) — 11 years between 1891–1991. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Johann Sebastian Muellerb. 1715DEGerman-born British naturalist and illustrator (1715–c.1790)
• Ferdinand von Muellerb. 1825GBGerman-Australian botanist (1825–1896)
• Otto Muellerb. 1874DEGerman painter and printmaker of the expressionist movement (1874–1930)
• Lisel Muellerb. 1924USGerman-American poet and translator (1924-2020)
• Robert Muellerb. 1944USAmerican attorney and sixth director of the FBI (1944–2026)
• Cookie Muellerb. 1949USactress, writer (1949-1989)
• Chelsea Nobleb. 1964USnot in their usual nameactress
• Siggi Muellerb. 1964DEGerman composer and musician
• Jessie Muellerb. 1983USAmerican actress and singer
• Kayla Muellerb. 1988USAmerican aid worker and ISIS captive (1988–2015)

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 63 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Mueller?

We estimate roughly 1.3 million people bear Mueller (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.

In which country does Mueller have the most bearers?

We estimate about 1.2 million people bear Mueller in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled miller.

How common is Mueller compared with other names?

In the United States, Mueller is the 6th most common surname of 7,257,200 surnames recorded there.

What does the name Mueller mean?

Recorded meaning: occupational name for a miller, Middle High German miiller, German Midler.