Milanes

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Milanes is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: habitational name for someone from Milan in Italy {Milano), from milanes, an adjectival form of the place name.

rarermore common
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 41K(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 332K
  • CRCosta Rica1 in 21K

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)

≈7,700 people, est.

Sources
171 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 21K (inferred from the name graph)

Costa Rica

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

habitational name for someone from Milan in Italy {Milano), from milanes, an adjectival form of the place name.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Milanes 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.

Where Milanes is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CN China—≈7,700 est.≈1 in 182K—Milanes2
PH Philippines—≈2,700 est.≈1 in 41K—Milanes43
ID Indonesia—≈1,400 est.≈1 in 194K—Milanes3
US United States—1,0011 in 332K1.1KMilanes171
ES Spain—6431 in 78K643Milanes55
DO Dominican Republic#764≈330 est.≈1 in 32K—Milanes18
CR Costa Rica#5072401 in 21K240Milanes14
CU Cuba#530≈180 est.≈1 in 60K—Milanes18
UY Uruguay—1261 in 27K126—7

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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Milanes is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Portuguese surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Philippines, Spain

    Also written Milanês, Milanés, Milânes, Milanès, Milanės

  • French surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Philippines, United States, Spain

    Also written Milanés

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Milanês, Milánes, Milanés

  • Italian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, Philippines, United States

    Also written Milanés

  • Norwegian surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Norway

    Also written Milanés

  • Croatian surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, United States

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian

    Also written Milanés

28 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Milanes is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Italian, forma dialetal setentrional de Milanese

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

  • In German, genitive singular of Milan

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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)

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 24 sources across 13 countries.

Official registers attesting Milanes
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201.1K#23,835
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101K#24,855
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000746#29,758
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—643#6,523
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—643#6,521
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—240#902
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—126—
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

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 Milanes mean, and where does it come from?
habitational name for someone from Milan in Italy {Milano), from milanes, an adjectival form of the place name. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
In which country does Milanes have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 7.7 thousand people named Milanes in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled milanes.
Where is Milanes most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Milanes is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 21 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Milanes?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,001 people named Milanes in 2010, about 1 in 332 thousand residents.
How common is Milanes compared with other names?
In Costa Rica, Milanes is the 507th most common surname of 8,899 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Milanes” — the 507th most common surname in Costa Rica. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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