Milke
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Milke is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from German Milke.
- RURussia≈1 in 811Kas Мильке(inferred from the name graph)
- PLPoland1 in 55Kas Mielke
- USUnited States1 in 61Kas Mielke
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Milke itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 79 (measured from records)
- 1 in 55K (inferred from the name graph)
5,482 named Mielke, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Poland, as Mielke
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Мильке in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan and Mielke in US United States.
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)
Borrowed from German Milke.
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Milke 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 | 5,482as Mielke | 1 in 61K | 5.5K | Mielke | 10 |
| BR Brazil | 1,408as Mielke | 1 in 150K | 1.4K | — | — |
| PL Poland | 692as Mielke | 1 in 55K | 352 | — | — |
| RU Russia | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 811K | — | Мильке | 79 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | ≈69 est. | ≈1 in 275K | — | Мильке | 21 |
| NO Norway | 48as Mielke | 1 in 114K | 48 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 33as Mielke | 1 in 178K | 33 | — | — |
5,482 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Willi Milkeb. 1896DEGerman politician (1896-1944)
- Hubertus Milkeb. 1962DEGerman construction engineer, professor and rector of the technical university at Leipzig
- Debra Milkeb. 1964USArizona death row inmate
- Mark Milkeb. 1967CACanadian author and columnist
- Anja Milkeb. 1968DEGerman association football player
- Mark MilkeUSNew Zealand waste management researcher
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 17 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1K | #9,111 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 728 | #30,324 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 669 | #33,990 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 650 | #36,940 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 197 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 197 | #16,674 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 168 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 168 | #18,979 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Milke mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from German Milke. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Milke have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 5.5 thousand people named Mielke, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Milke most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Milke itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Poland's: the national register counts about 1 in 55 thousand people named Mielke.
- How common is the name Milke?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,482 people named Mielke in 2010, about 1 in 61 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Milke?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/milkeThe 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, “Milke”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.