Save Gender Masculine Usage Irish (Archaic), Medieval Irish Other Forms FormsAnglicized form: Miler Meaning & History Variant of Máel Muire borne by the 16th-century Irish priest and poet Maol Muire Ó hÚigínn (anglicized as Miler O'Higgin), who became Archbishop of Tuam in 1586 and died in office in 1590.