Milburn

7,437 people in the United States were counted with the surname Milburn in the 2020 census, making it the 4,626th most common in the country. That is about one person in 40,200.

By the numbers

People: 7,437
Rank: 4,626th
How common: 1 in 40,200
Per 100,000: 2.5

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

From Old English mylen (“mill”) + burna (“stream, brook”); compare the doublet.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Milburn described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 80.5%
Black, not Hispanic 11.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.8%
Hispanic or Latino 3.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Milburn

Jackie Milburn (1924–1988)English footballer
Rod Milburn (1950–1997)American athlete
Amos Milburn (1927–1980)American rhythm and blues singer, and pianist
Alan Milburn (born 1958)British politician

People named Milburn with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Milburn

Also a first name

Milburn has been given to 2,234 American babies as a first name since 1884, peaking in 1918. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.