Find out how popular the last name Muellerleile is in the United States and learn more about the meaning, history, and race and ethnic origin of people in America who are named Muellerleile.

Muellerleile, like all of the last names we have data for, is identified by the U.S. Census Bureau as a surname which has more than 100 occurrences in the United States in the Decennial Census survey. The most recent statistics we have for the Muellerleile surname is from the 2010 census data.

Popularity of Muellerleile in America

Muellerleile is the 98982nd most popular name in America based on the data we have collected from the U.S. Census Bureau.

The Muellerleile surname appeared 183 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 people would have the surname Muellerleile.

We can also compare 2010 data for Muellerleile to data from the previous census in 2000. The table below contains all of the statistics for both years in a side-by-side comparison.

The history of the last name Muellerleile

The surname MUELLERLEILE is believed to have originated in Germany, likely dating back to the 16th or 17th century. It is a compound name, derived from the German words "Mueller" and "Leile". "Mueller" is an occupational surname referring to a miller, someone who operated a mill for grinding grain. "Leile" is thought to be a derivation of a Middle High German word meaning "little" or "small", possibly referring to a person's stature or indicating they were from a smaller village or town.

One of the earliest known references to the MUELLERLEILE name can be found in church records from the town of Quedlinburg in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, dating back to the late 1600s. The name is also mentioned in various municipal records and land deeds from the nearby regions of Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia during the 18th century.

A notable early bearer of the MUELLERLEILE surname was Johann Friedrich MUELLERLEILE, born in 1723 in the village of Salzgitter, near Braunschweig. He was a blacksmith by trade and is recorded as having fought in the Seven Years' War from 1756 to 1763.

In the 19th century, the MUELLERLEILE name appeared in several historical documents from the Prussian province of Westphalia. One such record mentions a Carl MUELLERLEILE, born in 1812 in the town of Bielefeld, who was a successful merchant and landowner.

Another prominent figure with this surname was Wilhelm MUELLERLEILE, born in 1856 in the town of Soest, Westphalia. He was a renowned linguist and scholar of Germanic languages, and served as a professor at the University of Berlin from 1885 until his death in 1927.

Other notable individuals bearing the MUELLERLEILE name include Auguste MUELLERLEILE, a painter and artist born in 1868 in Dusseldorf, whose works were exhibited in several galleries across Europe in the late 19th century. There was also Heinrich MUELLERLEILE, a German politician and member of the Reichstag (parliament) in the early 20th century, representing the Social Democratic Party from 1912 to 1918.

Race and ethnic origin of people with the last name Muellerleile

We also have some data on the ancestry of people with the surname Muellerleile.

The below race categories are the modified race categories used in the Census Bureau's population estimates program. All people were categorized into six mutually exclusive racial and Hispanic origin groups:

1. White only
2. Black only
3. American Indian and Alaskan Native only
4. Asian and Pacific Islander only
5. Hispanic
6. Two or More Races

For the most recent 2010 census data, the race/ethnic origin breakdown for Muellerleile was:

Note: Any fields showing (S) means the data was suppressed for privacy so that the data does not in any way identify any specific individuals.

Since we have data from the previous census in 2000, we can also compare the values to see how the popularity of Muellerleile has changed in the 10 years between the two census surveys.

Data source

The last name data and ethnic breakdown of last names is sourced directly from the Decennial Census survey, conducted every 10 years by the United States Census Bureau.

The history and meaning of the name Muellerleile was researched and written by our team of onomatology and genealogy experts.

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