Milburn
About 2,234 American babies have been named Milburn since 1884, most of them around 1918. It has not appeared in the national data since 1985. About 450 Milburns are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 72.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Milburn
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 2,234
- Estimated living today
- 450
- Median age today
- 72
- Peak year
- 1918
- Best rank
- 710th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1884
How old the living Milburns are
born that year still alive today
Of the 2,234 babies given the name since 1884, about 450 are alive — 20 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1953 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Milburns
- Milburn Stone (1904–1980)actor
People named Milburn with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Milburn is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Milburn is most concentrated in Arkansas (12.0×), Tennessee (10.2×), Kentucky (8.2×), Texas (3.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1918
The most popular boys’ names the year Milburn peaked:
Related names
Milburn against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.