Milo
Milo is a boy's name that peaked in 2022, when it was the 120th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 119th. About 38,000 Milos are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 6.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Milo boys named Milo
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 44,313
- Estimated living today
- 38,000
- Median age today
- 6
- Peak year
- 2022
- Best rank
- 120th
- Rank in 2025
- 119th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 466 / 43,847
How old the living Milos are
born that year still alive today
Of the 44,313 babies given the name since 1880, about 38,000 are alive — 86 in every hundred. Roughly 33,000 of them are children and 1,200 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2019 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.
Where the name comes from
Origin Germanic languages
A Latinate variant of Miles.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Milos
- Milo Đukanović (born 1962)2nd President of Montenegro
- Milo Ventimiglia (born 1977)American actor
- Milo Yiannopoulos (born 1984)British political commentator
- Milo of Croton (born 550 BC)6th-century BC wrestler from the Magna Graecian city of Croton
- Milo Manara (born 1945)Italian comic creator
- Milo Manheim (born 2001)American actor and singer
- Milo O'Shea (1926–2013)Irish American actor
- Milo Moiré (born 1987)Swiss conceptual artist
People named Milo with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Milo is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Milo is most concentrated in Utah (4.3×), South Dakota (2.9×), Minnesota (2.5×), Oregon (2.4×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2022
The most popular boys’ names the year Milo peaked:
Milo elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Milo +1 spelling | 17,625 | 34th |
| England and Wales boys | Milo | 10,152 | 80th |
| Sweden boys | Milo | 3,983 | 48th |
| Belgium boys | Milo | 3,098 | 28th |
| Switzerland boys | Milo | 1,774 | 28th |
| Italy boys | Milo | 1,537 | — |
| Ireland boys | Milo | 717 | 111th |
| Scotland boys | Milo | 434 | 152nd |
| Poland boys | Milo | 170 birth registrations | 302nd |
| Northern Ireland boys | Milo | 136 | 164th |
| France girls | Milo | 75 | 5,033rd |
| Norway boys | Milo | 31 | 245th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Milo: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Milo | 1,264 | 0.102% | 41st |
| French boys | Switzerland | Milo | 424 | 0.097% | 40th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Milo | 84 | 0.129% | 54th |
| Romansh boys | Switzerland | Milo | 2 | 0.054% | 6th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Milo is most concentrated in Basel-Stadt, where 0.15% of children were given it – 57 of them.
Milo: rank by region
In 2025, Milo was given 5 times or more in 3 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Milo | 80 | 67 |
| Wallonia | Milo | 30 | 78 |
| Brussels | Milo | 68 | 14 |
In 2024, Milo was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Milo | 7 | 2 |
In 2025, Milo was given 2 times or more in 2 regions of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mazowieckie | Milo | 180 | 8 |
| Pomorskie | Milo | 212 | 2 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Milo appears in the lists for Province of Namur (24th), Province of Hainaut (28th), Province of Liège (30th), Province of Walloon Brabant (31st), Province of Flemish Brabant (37th), Brussels-Capital Region (68th), Province of West Flanders (75th), Province of Antwerp (94th), Province of Limburg (109th) and Province of East Flanders (118th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Milo by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 524 | 28th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Milo among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Milo | 2,215 | 2,616 |
| the Netherlands boys | Milo | 1,741 | 2,123 |
| Finland girls | Milo | 61 | 78 |
| the Netherlands girls | Milo | 12 | 20 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026, the Netherlands on 1 January 2018 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Milo lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 796 men called Milo were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barcelona | Milo | 233 | 0.080 | 799 |
| Balears, Illes | Milo | 48 | 0.077 | 859 |
| Girona | Milo | 21 | 0.050 | 1,239 |
| Málaga | Milo | 40 | 0.046 | 1,175 |
| Valencia/València | Milo | 51 | 0.038 | 1,448 |
| Alicante/Alacant | Milo | 36 | 0.036 | 1,726 |
Listed in 25 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 27 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Milo against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
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.