How common is the surname Milnes?

1,198 people in the United States had the surname Milnes in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 257,717 Americans. It ranked 21,717th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Milnes?

In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Milnes identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Milnes getting more or less common?

More common. 1,107 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,198 in 2010, up 8.2%.

The surname Milnes

A surname, carried by 1,198 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex M452

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Milnes is more common than 86.6% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,198 people named Milnes in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 257,717 Americans. That is up 8.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,107.

#21,717

rank among US surnames

1,198

people in 2010

0.4

per 100,000 Americans

+8.2%

change since 2000 (was #21,880)

Who is named Milnes

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

92% of people named Milnes identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.8% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 92%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4.9%
Two or more races 1.8%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.9%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Milnes

Milnes has the Soundex code M452, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M452.

Questions

How common is the surname Milnes?: 1,198 people in the United States had the surname Milnes in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 257,717 Americans. It ranked 21,717th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Milnes?: In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Milnes identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Milnes getting more or less common?: More common. 1,107 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,198 in 2010, up 8.2%.