Milonas

surname · Latin script

Meaning: occupational name for a miller, from Greek mylos ‘mill’ -I- the suffix of occupational nouns -as

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024

/milonas/(machine-generated) Greek · model-generated · read from μυλωνας

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Milonas is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Greece than in any other country.

  • CACanada≈1 in 400Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
  • DEGermany≈1 in 410Kfew records
  • GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 430Kfew records

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 Milonas 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.

Greece (inferred from the name graph)

≈2,500 named Mylonas, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
156 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 397K (inferred from the name graph)

Canada, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)
MilonasLatin(measured from records)
ΜυλωναςGreek(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Mylonas in AU Australia, DE Germany, CY Cyprus and 2 more and Μυλωνας in GR Greece.

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)

occupational name for a miller, from Greek mylos ‘mill’ -I- the suffix of occupational nouns -as. Milonas has been known as a Greek family name since Byzantine times.

Cited for this meaning 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Milonas 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 Milonas is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
GR Greece#514≈2,500 est.≈1 in 4.1K20Μυλωνας69
US United States—4611 in 722K461Milonas156
AU Australia—≈270 est.≈1 in 102K—Mylonas80
CY Cyprus#327≈250 est.≈1 in 5.6K—Mylonas36
DE Germany—≈210 est.≈1 in 408K—Mylonas50
CA Canada—≈100 est.≈1 in 397K—Milonas42
BE Belgium—53as Mylonas1 in 221K53Mylonas7
CH Switzerland—47as Mylonas1 in 179K47Mylonas6

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; Διαύγεια — directory of signing officials (organization → signers); 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)

Milonas is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Russian surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, China, Kyrgyzstan

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Милонас, Мілонас

  • Croatian surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian

    Also written Милонас

  • Hungarian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Hungary

    Also written Milonás

30 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)

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)
FormalDear Milonas,
InformalHello,

Evidence

(measured from records)

13 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

Where does the name Milonas come from?
occupational name for a miller, from Greek mylos ‘mill’ -I- the suffix of occupational nouns -as. Milonas has been known as a Greek family name since Byzantine times. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
How do you pronounce Milonas?
In Greek /milonas/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
What does the name Milonas mean?
Recorded meaning: occupational name for a miller, from Greek mylos ‘mill’ -I- the suffix of occupational nouns -as.
In which country does Milonas have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 2.5 thousand people named Mylonas in Greece, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Milonas?
In the United States, the national register counted 461 people named Milonas in 2010, about 1 in 722 thousand residents.
How common is Milonas compared with other names?
In Greece, Milonas is the 514th most common surname of 112,415 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Milonas” — the 514th most common surname in Greece. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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