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    The surname Millen

    A surname, carried by 4,737 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex M450

    Millen: #7,068 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Millen #7,068, 4,737 people Millen: #7,068 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Millen #7,068, 4,737 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Millen is more common than 95.6% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 4,737 people named Millen in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 65,177 Americans. That is up 26% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,749.

    #7,068
    rank among US surnames
    4,737
    people in 2010
    1.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    +26.4%
    change since 2000 (was #8,142)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #7,060Edgerton4,74065,136
    #7,061Wittman4,73965,150
    #7,066Shilling4,73865,164
    #7,068Millen4,73765,177
    #7,069Voelker4,73565,205
    #7,071Westover4,73465,219

    Who is named Millen

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

    77% of people named Millen identified as white (not Hispanic), 18% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 77%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 18%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.9%
    • Two or more races 1.2%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Millen

    Millen has the Soundex code M450, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M450.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Millen?
    4,737 people in the United States had the surname Millen in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 65,177 Americans. It ranked 7,068th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Millen?
    In the 2010 Census, 77% of people named Millen identified as white (not Hispanic), and 18% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Millen getting more or less common?
    More common. 3,749 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,737 in 2010, up 26%.