Mueller

At the 2020 census, 62,147 Americans bore the surname Mueller — 530th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 4,810.

By the numbers

People: 62,147
Rank: 530th
How common: 1 in 4,810
Per 100,000: 20.8

Where the name comes from

Origin German

From German Müller (“miller”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Mueller described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 92.9%
Hispanic or Latino 3.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
Black, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Mueller

Robert Mueller (1944–2026)American attorney and sixth director of the FBI
Otto Mueller (1874–1930)German painter and printmaker of the expressionist movement
Ferdinand von Mueller (1825–1896)German-Australian botanist
Kayla Mueller (1988–2015)American aid worker and ISIS captive
Peter Mueller (born 1954)American speed skater
William Mueller (born 1980)American professional wrestler
Jean Mueller (born 1950)American astronomer
Tom Mueller (born 1961)American aerospace engineer and rocket engine designer

People named Mueller with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.