Milner

At the 2020 census, 11,493 Americans bore the surname Milner — 3,053rd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 26,000.

By the numbers

People: 11,493
Rank: 3,053rd
How common: 1 in 26,000
Per 100,000: 3.9

Where the name comes from

Origin an occupational name

As an English surname, variant of Miller, retaining the -n- of Middle English mylnere (“miller”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 75.3%
Black, not Hispanic 16.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Milner

James Milner (born 1986)English association football player
Brenda Milner (born 1918)Canada-based British neuroscientist and neuropsychologist
Robin Milner (1934–2010)British computer scientist
Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner (1854–1925)British statesman and colonial administrator
Martin Milner (1931–2015)American actor
Yuri Milner (born 1961)Russian entrepreneur and physicist
Victor Milner (1893–1972)American cinematographer
Bill Milner (born 1995)British actor

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

Surnames like Milner

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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.