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Milburn

Boys' name

Mill stream

Milburn has been given to 2,234 babies in the U.S. since 1884. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1918, with 79 recorded.

Babies named Milburn, 1985

1 in 714,000

Milburn over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Milburn: meaning, origin, and history

Mill stream

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Milburn means

Milburn means “mill stream”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Milburn is used in English.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈmɪl.bəɹn/ and /ˈmɪl.bən/ for Milburn.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,234 boys were recorded with the name Milburn between 1884 and 1985. Its highest annual count was 79 in 1918; its best national rank was #574 in 1908.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Milburn?

Milburn had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1985, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1985
1 in 714,000
5 of 3,568,740 births
Among boys only
1 in 370,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1985
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
494,734 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Milburn sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1985 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 494,734 children born in 1985 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Milburn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Milburns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Milburn was born before 1928 — so the typical Milburn is around 97 today.

Median birth year
1928
About 97 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
26.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
7.7%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
354
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 26.4% of all recorded uses (590).

Is Milburn rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1918 (79)
Years since peak
107
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#574
1908

Spellings of Milburn

Milburn is not the most common spelling — Wilbur is, with 79.2% against Milburn's 3.1%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Milburn is used

Across 1910–2025, Milburn was most concentrated in Arkansas — about 1 in 20,000 boys, against 1 in 80,300 across all states with data. It was least common in North Carolina (1 in —).

05 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arkansas1 in 20,000
  2. 2Tennessee1 in 25,000
  3. 3Kentucky1 in 33,333
  4. 4Indiana1 in 100,000
  5. 5Missouri1 in 100,000
  6. 6Oklahoma1 in 100,000
  7. 7Texas1 in 100,000
  8. 8Alabama1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Milburn has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Notable people named Milburn

People whose public names include Milburn, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Milburn by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#574
1908
Peak year
1918
79 that year
First recorded
1884
Last recorded
1985
All-time count
2,234
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Milburn

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

MildredMillionMilianoMillardMillerMillsMilfordMilanoRayburnMilfredMillanMilbertMiladAuburnMilosMilohMilanLilburnMilamMillianoMelburnWilburnMilagroMilledge

Names with a curve like Milburn

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Milburn, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

ArvelNorvalEstelEwellBerylVesterMerlHilbertNortonVerlFoyOrland

Sibling names for Milburn

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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