Milin

surname · Latin script

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

Milin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: from Slavic mil- 'dear' with suffix -in.

rarermore common
  • HRCroatia1 in 8.6K(measured from records)
  • SISlovenia1 in 175K
  • NONorway1 in 547K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Croatia (measured from records)

491 people, 2021

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
36 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 8.6K (inferred from the name graph)

Croatia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

MilinLatin(measured from records)
МилинCyrillic(measured from records)

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)

from Slavic mil- 'dear' with suffix -in

Sources 1

  • Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

Where in the world(measured from records)

Milin 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 Milin is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
HR Croatia4911 in 8.6K491Milin36
US United States1771 in 1.9M211Milin31
BR Brazil451 in 4.7M45——
AR Argentina141 in 3.2M14——
SI Slovenia121 in 175K12—2
NO Norway101 in 547K10——
BE Belgium71 in 1.7M7——
CH Switzerland51 in 1.7M5—1

491 people counted by DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form), 2021. 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: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); 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); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)

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

  • English surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Australia, United Kingdom, Germany

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Mi-Lin, Milín, Mîlïn

  • Spanish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in El Salvador, Argentina, United States, Mexico

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Milín, Miliñ

  • Thai given name17 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Thailand

    Also written มิลินทร์, มิลินท, Milint, มิลินทร, มลนที

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Mi-Lin

  • Russian surname11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, United States

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Милин, Мілін, Милін, Милинь

  • Chinese name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in China

    Also written Mi-Lin

40 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

18001850190019502000Gabriel Milin, b. 1822Gaël Milin, b. 1953Jean-Luc Milin, b. 1957Boško Milin, b. 1966Gildas Milin, b. 1968Ferdo Milin, b. 1977Petar Milin, b. 1979

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 29 sources across 19 countries.

Official registers attesting Milin
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)2021491#1,453
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021)2021433—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020211#93,282
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000204#85,297
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010177#101,737
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—45#112,812
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—14—
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—12#17,855
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—10#57,089
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)20087#85,420
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20245#101,952
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 Milin mean, and where does it come from?
from Slavic mil- 'dear' with suffix -in Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
In which country does Milin have the most bearers?
In Croatia, the national register counted about 491 people named Milin, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled milin.
Where is Milin most common?
Milin is densest in Croatia, where the national register counts about 1 in 8.6 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Milin?
In Croatia, the national register counted 491 people named Milin in 2021, about 1 in 8.6 thousand residents.

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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, “Milin”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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