Mileto
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Mileto is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country. In Portuguese, recorded as Miletus (ancient Greek city in western Anatolia, in modern Turkey).
- USUnited States1 in 953K(measured from records)
- ITItaly≈1 in 66K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 130K
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.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 141 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 66K (inferred from the name graph)
≈940 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Miletus (ancient Greek city in western Anatolia, in modern Turkey)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
How Mileto is read(measured from records)
Mileto is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English58%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Mileto in English.
- Spanish17%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Mileto in Spanish.
- Italian8.4%
natural de Mileto; talvez do nome grego Míletos ou do latim meletum
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
- Portuguese5.9%
Miletus (ancient Greek city in western Anatolia, in modern Turkey)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French5.2%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Mileto in French.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mileto 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | ≈940 est. | ≈1 in 66K | listed | Mileto | 17 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈670 est. | ≈1 in 349K | — | Mileto | 1 |
| US United States | 349 | 1 in 953K | 352 | Mileto | 141 |
| AU Australia | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 130K | — | Mileto | 53 |
| BR Brazil | 194 | 1 in 1.1M | 194 | — | 1 |
| AR Argentina | 147 | 1 in 309K | 147 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 58 | 1 in 145K | 58 | Mileto | 9 |
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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); the xinhua-italian-manual 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)
Mileto is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
habitational name from Mileto in Catanzaro province.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Latin, dative/ablative of Mīlētus
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, pilsēta Itālijā ("Mileto"), Kalabrijas reģiona Vibo Valentijas provincē, 6800 iedzīvotāju (2014. g.)
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Camilla Miletob. 1971ITItalian architect
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 16 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 352 | #61,594 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 349 | #58,182 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 304 | #61,713 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 194 | #37,693 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 147 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 58 | #16,638 |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Mileto mean, and where does it come from?
- Miletus (ancient Greek city in western Anatolia, in modern Turkey) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Mileto have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 943 people named Mileto in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mileto.
- How common is the name Mileto?
- In the United States, the national register counted 349 people named Mileto in 2010, about 1 in 953 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Mileto?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/miletoThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Mileto”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.