Milton
loc · Latin script
Meaning: Person from Milton; the place-name means either ‘middle farmstead’ or ‘farmstead with a mill’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mɪltən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Milton is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- ECEcuador1 in 402(measured from records)
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 719
- COColombia≈1 in 1.6K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 353 (measured from records)
- 1 in 402 (inferred from the name graph)
≈290,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Ecuador
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Miltón in US United States, SV El Salvador, CO Colombia and 1 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Person from Milton; the place-name means either ‘middle farmstead’ or ‘farmstead with a mill’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Milton counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈290,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.8K | — | Milton | 13 |
| BR Brazil | 105,286 | 1 in 2K | 126K | Milton | 182 |
| US United States | 51,890 | 1 in 6.4K | 52K | Miltón | 353 |
| EC Ecuador | 42,095 | 1 in 402 | 42K | — | 70 |
| CO Colombia | ≈30,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | 39 | Miltón | 126 |
| PE Peru | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Miltón | 78 |
| SV El Salvador | ≈9,000 est. | ≈1 in 719 | — | Miltón | 54 |
| SE Sweden | 5,549 | 1 in 1.8K | 5.5K | — | 22 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INEC — civil registry names; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); the co-datosgov-candidates register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Milton is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, From English surname/toponym: mill + tun ‘mill’ + ‘enclosure, village’; ‘the mill village’.
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
In English, from one or other of the many places named Milton, sometimes from Middleton, and occasionally from Melton (Leics, Lincs, Norfolk, ER, WRYorks); first attested Boia on Mylatune 972 OEByn
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
habitational name from any of the numerous and widespread places so called. The majority of these are named with Old English middel ‘middle’ + tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’; a smaller group, with examples in Cumbria, Kent, Northamptonshire, Northumbria, Nottinghamshire, and Staffordshire, have as their first element Old English mylen ‘mill’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, ous places so called. The majority, with examples in at least fourteen counties, get the name from OE middel middle + tun enclosure, settlement (cf. Middleton); a smaller group, with examples in Cumb., Kent, Northants, Northumb., Notts., and Staffs., have as their first element OE mylen mill (cf. Millington). The surname is most common in Beds. Millen see Mullen
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
In English, places so called. The majority, with examples in at least fourteen counties, get the name from OE middel middle + tun enclosure, settlement (cf. Middleton); a smaller group, with examples in Cumb., Kent, Northants, Northumb., Notts., and Staffs., have as their first element OE mylen mill (cf. Millington). The surname is most com¬ mon in Beds.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- John Miltonb. 1608GBEnglish poet and civil servant (1608–1674)
- Milton S. Hersheyb. 1857USAmerican businessman (1857-1945)
- Milton Humasonb. 1891USAmerican astronomer (1891–1972)
- Milton Berleb. 1908USAmerican comedian and actor (1908–2002)
- Milton Friedmanb. 1912USAmerican economist and statistician (1912–2006)
- John Cageb. 1912USnot in their usual nameAmerican avant-garde composer (1912-1992)
- Milton Oboteb. 1925UGPresident of Uganda (1966–1971; 1980–1985)
- Robert Rauschenbergb. 1925USnot in their usual nameAmerican painter and graphic artist (1925–2008)
- Philip Rothb. 1933USnot in their usual nameAmerican novelist (1933–2018)
- Carl Bernsteinb. 1944USnot in their usual nameAmerican journalist (born 1944)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 96 sources across 51 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 126K | #390 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 105K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 105K | #309 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 52K | #870 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 42K | #48 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 5.5K | #576 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 3.6K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 274 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 262 | #309 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 125 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 106 | #870 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2024 | 43 | — |
Reference works 8
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Milton mean, and where does it come from?
- Person from Milton; the place-name means either ‘middle farmstead’ or ‘farmstead with a mill’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Milton have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 291 thousand people named Milton in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled milton.
- Where is Milton most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Milton is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 402 people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How do you pronounce Milton?
- A machine transcription gives /mɪltən/ (IPA) for English.
- How common is the name Milton?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 105,286 people named Milton in 2022, about 1 in 2.0 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/miltonThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Milton”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.