Milonas
surname · Latin script
Meaning: occupational name for a miller, from Greek mylos ‘mill’ -I- the suffix of occupational nouns -as
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/miˈɫoʊnɑz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Milonas is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 722K(measured from records)
- GRGreece≈1 in 24Kas Mylonas
- AUAustralia≈1 in 99Kas Mylonas
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 156 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 395K (inferred from the name graph)
461 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Canada, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(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.
Sources 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 461 | 1 in 722K | 461 | Milonas | 156 |
| GR Greece | #514 | ≈440 est. | ≈1 in 24K | 20 | Μυλωνας | 69 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 99K | — | Mylonas | 80 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 455K | — | Mylonas | 50 |
| CY Cyprus | #327 | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 7.9K | — | Mylonas | 36 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈95 est. | ≈1 in 395K | — | Milonas | 42 |
| BE Belgium | — | 53as Mylonas | 1 in 221K | 53 | Mylonas | 7 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 47as Mylonas | 1 in 179K | 47 | Mylonas | 6 |
461 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; 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- E. Leo Milonasb. 1936USAmerican lawyer (1936–2024)
- Panagiotis MilonasGRGreek entomologist
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 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 461 | #46,219 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 441 | #45,651 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 428 | #52,367 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 6 | #91,463 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 5 | #101,952 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
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
- 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?
- A machine transcription gives /miˈɫoʊnɑz/ (IPA) for English.
- 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?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 461 people named Milonas, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled milonas.
- 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 Cyprus, Milonas is the 327th most common surname of 24,832 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/milonasThe 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, “Milonas” — the 327th most common surname in Cyprus. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.