Milian
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from a reduced form of the Latin personal name Aemilianus (a derivative of Aemilius, a Roman family name probably derived from aemulus ‘rival’)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/miljan/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Milian is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- GTGuatemala≈1 in 3.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- PEPeru≈1 in 12K
- ESSpain1 in 32K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 177 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.3K (inferred from the name graph)
5,181 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Guatemala, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from a reduced form of the Latin personal name Aemilianus (a derivative of Aemilius, a Roman family name probably derived from aemulus ‘rival’). This was borne by various early saints and hence was widely used throughout Europe as a personal name in the Middle Ages.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Milian 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 5,181 | 1 in 64K | 5.2K | Milian | 177 |
| GT Guatemala | #158 | ≈5,100 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | — | Milian | 36 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Milian | 39 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,568 | 1 in 32K | 1.6K | Milian | 92 |
| VE Venezuela | — | ≈550 est. | ≈1 in 52K | — | Milian | 17 |
| CU Cuba | #218 | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 52K | — | Milian | 27 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 172 | 1 in 20K | 172 | — | 8 |
5,181 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Milian is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, Milian är en kortform av → Maximilian. Namnet har blivit populärt i Sverige de senaste åren, men finns sedan tidigare i bl.a. Tyskland. Variantformer är Miliam och Millian.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In German, männl. Vom., Kurzform von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In Polish, Middle Polish form of milion
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, obsolete form of melean
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)
- Gaston Auguste Milianb. 1871FRFrench dermatologist and syphilogist
- Jerzy Milianb. 1935PLPolish musician and composer
- Armand Olivé i Milianb. 1943ESCatalan ceramist
- Ted Milianb. 1954CACanadian football player
- Richard Milianb. 1960FRFrench matador
- Alberto Milianb. 1960USAmerican lawyer and judge from Florida (born 1960)
- Marilyn Milianb. 1961USAmerican judge and television personality
- Christina Milianb. 1981USAmerican actress, songwriter and singer (born 1981)
- Franklin MilianUSbasketball player
- Anna MilianPLPolish mathematician
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 61 sources across 28 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 5.2K | #6,539 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.7K | #8,596 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.2K | #12,967 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 1.6K | #2,984 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 1.6K | #2,982 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 172 | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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 Milian mean, and where does it come from?
- from a reduced form of the Latin personal name Aemilianus (a derivative of Aemilius, a Roman family name probably derived from aemulus ‘rival’). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Milian have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 5.2 thousand people named Milian, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled milian.
- How do you pronounce Milian?
- A machine transcription gives /miljan/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What are other forms of the name Milian?
- In the etymology graph, Miksa is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Milian?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,181 people named Milian in 2010, about 1 in 64 thousand residents.
- How common is Milian compared with other names?
- In Guatemala, Milian is the 158th most common surname of 54,341 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/milianThe 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, “Milian” — the 158th most common surname in Guatemala. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.