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    The surname Milbourne

    An English place surname, carried by 557 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex M416

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Milbourne is more common than 75.7% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    From Old English mylen (“mill”) + burna (“stream, bourn”); compare the doublets Milburn and Melbourne.

    Milbourne is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 557 people named Milbourne in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 554,301 Americans. That is down 47% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,044.

    #39,486
    rank among US surnames
    557
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    -46.6%
    change since 2000 (was #22,891)

    Who is named Milbourne

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    55% of people named Milbourne identified as Black (not Hispanic), 39% as white (not Hispanic) and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • Black (not Hispanic) 55%
    • White (not Hispanic) 39%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
    • Two or more races 2.5%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among Black Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Variant spellings

    • Milbourn

    Surnames that sound like Milbourne

    Milbourne has the Soundex code M416, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M416.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Milbourne come from?
    From Old English mylen (“mill”) + burna (“stream, bourn”); compare the doublets Milburn and Melbourne.
    How common is the surname Milbourne?
    557 people in the United States had the surname Milbourne in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 554,301 Americans. It ranked 39,486th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Milbourne?
    In the 2010 Census, 55% of people named Milbourne identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 39% as white (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Milbourne?
    Milbourne is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Milbourne getting more or less common?
    Less common. 1,044 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 557 in 2010, down 47%.
    What are other spellings of Milbourne?
    Milbourn.