Milne

At the 2020 census, 6,156 Americans bore the surname Milne — 5,462nd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 48,600.

By the numbers

People: 6,156
Rank: 5,462nd
How common: 1 in 48,600
Per 100,000: 2.1

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

Scottish occupational surname for a miller or someone who lived at a mill, from Old English mylen (“mill”). Compare Mill and Milner.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Milne described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 86.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 4.3%
Hispanic or Latino 4.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.1%
Black, not Hispanic 1.0%

Notable people called Milne

A. A. Milne (1882–1956)British author known for creating Winnie-the-Pooh
Gordon Milne (born 1937)English association football footballer and manager
Edward Arthur Milne (1896–1950)British astrophysicist and mathematician
Christopher Robin Milne (1920–1996)English author and bookseller
John Milne (1850–1913)British geologist, mining engineer and inventor of the horizontal pendulum seismograph
George Milne, 1st Baron Milne (1866–1948)British military commander
Stephen Milne (born 1994)Scottish swimmer
Travis Milne (born 1986)Canadian actor

People named Milne with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Milne

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.