Milliken
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Different form of Milligan
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈmɪɫɪkən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Milliken is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- AUAustralia
- GBUnited Kingdom
- CACanada
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Different form of Milligan.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
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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)
Milliken is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
variant of Milligan.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
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)
- Isaac Lawrence Millikenb. 1815USAmerican politician (1815-1885)
- Charles W. Millikenb. 1827USAmerican politician and lawyer (1827–1915)
- Seth L. Millikenb. 1831USAmerican politician (1831-1897)
- Carl E. Millikenb. 1877USAmerican politician, 51st Governor of Maine (1877–1961)
- William H. Milliken, Jr.b. 1897USAmerican politician (1897–1969)
- Roger Millikenb. 1915USAmerican textile executive (1915-2010)
- Anne Millikenb. 1919American heiress
- William Millikenb. 1922USAmerican politician (1922-2019)
- Sue Millikenb. 1940AUAustralian film producer
- Peter Millikenb. 1946CACanadian lawyer and politician
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 13 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 5.9K | #5,892 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 5.6K | #5,648 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 5.4K | #6,132 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 11 | #56,728 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #276,246 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1 | #165,748 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Milliken mean, and where does it come from?
- Different form of Milligan. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Milliken?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈmɪɫɪkən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Milliken have the most bearers?
- Milliken is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/millikenThe 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, “Milliken”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.