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Milon

Boys' name

Form of Milo

Milon has been given to 149 babies in the U.S. since 1918. 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 1923, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Milon, 2022

1 in 564,000

Milon 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Milon: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Milo

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Milon means

Milon is a form of Milo.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Milon is used in Ancient Greek.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Milon → Milo → Miles. The family’s proposed meaning is “soldier”, recorded in English with the source elements mīles.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Milo.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 149 boys were recorded with the name Milon between 1918 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1923; its best national rank was #3,206 in 1949.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Milon?

Milon had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022
1 in 564,000
6 of 3,385,755 births
Among boys only
1 in 291,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
391,139 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Milon 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 2022 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 391,139 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Milon. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Milons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Milon was born before 1969 — so the typical Milon is around 56 today.

Median birth year
1969
About 56 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
20.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
37.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
90
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 20.1% of all recorded uses (30).

Is Milon 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 1923 (8)
Years since peak
102
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
9.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,206
1949

Spellings of Milon

Milon is not the most common spelling — Mason is, with 31.4% against Milon's 0.01%.

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.

Milon around the world

Where Milon ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • South Australia
    1959–1959
    #464
    in 1959

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Milon 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
#3,206
1949
Peak year
1923
8 that year
First recorded
1918
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
149
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Milon

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

MilamMilohMilosMiladMillanMilaMilioMilenMilikMilanoZylonXylonMillsMileyMilusMilezRylonKhylonMylonMilianoMillieTaelonMilasMillion

Sibling names for Milon

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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