Muller

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Miller in TH Thailand.

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 18 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◐

Muller is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Spanish surname360K records spelled Muller39 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Brazil, Argentina, United States, Chile

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Müller, Mûller, Múller, Mullër, Müllër

• French surname270K records spelled Muller8 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, United States, Belgium, Switzerland

  Also written Müller, Mûller, Mūlļeř, Műller, Mùller

• a separate surname14K records spelled Muller6 spellings in the group

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

  Also written Müller, Műller, Mûller, Mŭller, Mūller

75 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●

Muller is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In English, H. J., US geneticist (Nobel 1946)

  as a name·Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

• In Swedish, rumble

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Aragonese, woman

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Catalan, wife

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Croatian, američki genetičar, Nobelova nagrada za medicinu 1946.

  as a word·Hrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export

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●

• Frank Mullerb. 1862USAmerican astronomer (1862-1917)
• Hermann Joseph Mullerb. 1890USAmerican biologist (1890–1967)
• Martin Millerb. 1899CZnot in their usual nameAustrian-British actor (1899-1969)
• Richard A. Mullerb. 1944USAmerican physicist
• Sophie Mullerb. 1962GBmusic video director
• Michel Mullerb. 1966ATFrench actor, screenwriter, director
• Kirk Mullerb. 1966CACanadian ice hockey player
• Todd Mullerb. 1968NZNew Zealand politician
• Derek Mullerb. 1982AUAustralian-born Canadian science communicator
• Mae Mullerb. 1997GBBritish singer

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 · 279 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Muller?

We estimate roughly 1.3 million people bear Muller (counting its spellings and scripts) across 18 countries in our records.

In which country does Muller have the most bearers?

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

Where is Muller most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Muller is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 159 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.

How common is Muller compared with other names?

In the Netherlands, Muller is the 120th most common surname of 286,284 surnames recorded there.

What does the name Muller mean?

Recorded meaning: One who, or that which, mulls.