How common is the surname Milne?

6,258 people in the United States had the surname Milne in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 49,336 Americans. It ranked 5,555th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Milne?

In the 2010 Census, 91% of people named Milne identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Who is the most famous person named Milne?

A. A. Milne, British author known for creating Winnie-the-Pooh (1882–1956), followed by Edward Arthur Milne.

Where is the surname Milne most common?

Wikidata records people named Milne in the United Kingdom, Australia and the United States and 1 other country.

How do you pronounce Milne?

Milne is /mɪln/, one syllable.

Is the surname Milne getting more or less common?

More common. 6,055 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 6,258 in 2010, up 3.4%.

The surname Milne

An English occupational surname, carried by 6,258 people in the United States.

Pronounced /mɪln/ 1 syllable Soundex M450

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Milne is more common than 96.6% of them.

Origin

English origin

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

Milne is an occupational surname: named after the work an ancestor did.

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 6,258 people named Milne in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 49,336 Americans. That is up 3.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 6,055.

#5,555

rank among US surnames

6,258

people in 2010

2.1

per 100,000 Americans

+3.4%

change since 2000 (was #5,293)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#5,551	Chilton	6,263	49,297
#5,553	Schatz	6,261	49,312
#5,554	Oster	6,259	49,328
#5,555	Milne	6,258	49,336
#5,557	Gilligan	6,257	49,344

Who is named Milne

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

91% of people named Milne identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 2.4% as Asian and Pacific Islander.

White (not Hispanic) 91%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
Asian and Pacific Islander 2.4%
Two or more races 1.9%
American Indian and Alaska Native 1.1%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.1%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Milnes

6 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

A. A. Milne
British author known for creating Winnie-the-Pooh (1882–1956)
Edward Arthur Milne
British astrophysicist and mathematician (1896-1950)
Leslie Milne
American field hockey player, born 1956
Malcolm Milne
Australian alpine skier, born 1948
Christine Milne
Australian politician, born 1953
Sir Alexander Milne, 1st Baronet
British admiral (1806–1896)

Notable Milnes come mostly from the United Kingdom (2), Australia (2) and the United States (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

Mylne

Surnames that sound like Milne

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

Other English surnames

All 1,446 English surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Milne come from?: Scottish occupational surname for a miller or someone who lived at a mill, from Old English mylen (“mill”). Compare Mill and Milner.
How common is the surname Milne?: 6,258 people in the United States had the surname Milne in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 49,336 Americans. It ranked 5,555th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Milne?: In the 2010 Census, 91% of people named Milne identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Who is the most famous person named Milne?: A. A. Milne, British author known for creating Winnie-the-Pooh (1882–1956), followed by Edward Arthur Milne.
Where is the surname Milne most common?: Wikidata records people named Milne in the United Kingdom, Australia and the United States and 1 other country.
How do you pronounce Milne?: Milne is /mɪln/, one syllable.
What type of surname is Milne?: Milne is an occupational surname, named after the work an ancestor did.
Is the surname Milne getting more or less common?: More common. 6,055 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 6,258 in 2010, up 3.4%.
What are other spellings of Milne?: Mylne.