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    The surname Milman

    A Yiddish surname, carried by 612 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex M455

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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). Milman is more common than 77.5% of them.

    Origin

    Yiddish origin

    Variant of Millman. Sometimes a Jewish variant, calqued from Yiddish מיל (mil) (compare German Mühle) + מאַן (man).

    One of 31 Yiddish surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 612 people named Milman in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 504,486 Americans. That is up 1.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 603.

    #36,525
    rank among US surnames
    612
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +1.5%
    change since 2000 (was #35,342)

    Who is named Milman

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

    97% of people named Milman identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 97%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.6%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American, Multiracial are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Milman

    Milman has the Soundex code M455, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M455.

    Other Yiddish surnames

    All 31 Yiddish surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Milman come from?
    Variant of Millman. Sometimes a Jewish variant, calqued from Yiddish מיל (mil) (compare German Mühle) + מאַן (man).
    How common is the surname Milman?
    612 people in the United States had the surname Milman in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 504,486 Americans. It ranked 36,525th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Milman?
    In the 2010 Census, 97% of people named Milman identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Milman getting more or less common?
    More common. 603 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 612 in 2010, up 1.5%.