Milo
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: sorghum
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/majlow/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Milo is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 16K(measured from records)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 31K
- SESweden1 in 1.7K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 371 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈35,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Slavic origin, diminutive of Miloslav; linked to “brillante victoire” (bright victory).
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
How Milo is read(measured from records)
Milo is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English46%
sorghum
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish27%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Milo in Spanish.
- French11%
Slavic origin, diminutive of Miloslav; linked to “brillante victoire” (bright victory).
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Milo counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈35,000 est. | ≈1 in 40K | — | Milo | 22 |
| US United States | 21,333 | 1 in 16K | 21K | Milo | 371 |
| AR Argentina | ≈6,300 est. | ≈1 in 7.2K | 1.5K | — | 1 |
| SE Sweden | 5,990 | 1 in 1.7K | 6K | Milo | 18 |
| PH Philippines | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Milo | 48 |
| FI Finland | 2,556 | 1 in 2.2K | 2.6K | — | 16 |
| DK Denmark | 1,616 | 1 in 3.6K | 1.6K | — | 3 |
| CZ Czechia | ≈700 est. | ≈1 in 15K | 169 | — | 1 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); MVČR — living population register 2017. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Milo is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Irish, Old German form of Miles, used in Ireland to anglicise the same names.
as a nameIrish first names
Latinized form of Miles, regularly used in documents of the Middle Ages, and _ England in the r9th century. MILO MILTON revived as a given name in the 19th century.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
The Old German form of Miles, used in Ireland to anglicise the same names. Milo O’Shea is a contemporary Irish actor.
as a nameIrish first names
from a short form of the personal name Emilio, or the Germanic personal name Milo.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Milo of Crotonb. 550IT6th-century BC wrestler from the Magna Graecian city of Croton
- Milo Butlerb. 1906BSBahamian politician (1906-1979)
- Milo O'Sheab. 1926IEIrish American actor (1926-2013)
- Milo Manarab. 1945ITItalian comic creator (born 1945)
- Milo Đukanovićb. 1962ME2nd President of Montenegro
- Milo Ventimigliab. 1977USAmerican actor
- Milo Yiannopoulosb. 1984GBBritish political commentator
- Milo Gibsonb. 1990AUAustralian-American actor
- Milo Manheimb. 2001USAmerican actor and singer
- Milo Parkerb. 2002GBBritish actor
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 108 sources across 51 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.7K | #11,659 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.5K | #12,124 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.4K | #12,037 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 279 | — |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 169 | #9,993 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 139 | #3,899 |
Reference works 8
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Milo a male or female name?
- Milo is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- Where does the name Milo come from?
- Slavic origin, diminutive of Miloslav; linked to “brillante victoire” (bright victory). Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- How do you pronounce Milo?
- A machine transcription gives /majlow/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Milo mean?
- In English, sorghum
- What are other forms of the name Milo?
- In the etymology graph, Myles, Milon and Mylo are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Milo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 35 thousand people named Milo in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled milo.
- Where is Milo most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Milo is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 1.7 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Milo?
- In the United States, the national register counted 21,333 people named Milo in 2020, about 1 in 16 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/miloThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Milo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.