The Mystery of Carl Miller

What does your last name say about you? That was a question Sarah Miller could never answer for she knew nothing about her paternal grandfather Carl Miller. In this essay, she reflects about her last name actually has no meaning, concluding that: "The last name Miller says nothing about me, but if pressed I would say I appreciate the way it evokes a beautiful neutrality, and the way it reminds me that all of us could so easily have been someone else."

https://longreads.com/2016/07/21/whats-in-a-last-name/