How common is the surname Milroy?

1,037 people in the United States had the surname Milroy in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 297,730 Americans. It ranked 24,214th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Milroy?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Milroy identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Milroy getting more or less common?

More common. 997 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,037 in 2010, up 4.0%.

The surname Milroy

A surname, carried by 1,037 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex M460

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Milroy is more common than 85.1% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,037 people named Milroy in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 297,730 Americans. That is up 4.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 997.

#24,214

rank among US surnames

1,037

people in 2010

0.3

per 100,000 Americans

+4%

change since 2000 (was #23,698)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#24,214	Ansel	1,037	297,730
#24,222	Hallgren	1,036	298,017

Who is named Milroy

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

95% of people named Milroy identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.1% as Asian and Pacific Islander.

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.4%
Asian and Pacific Islander 1.1%
Two or more races 1.0%

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 Milroy

Milroy has the Soundex code M460, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M460.

Questions

How common is the surname Milroy?: 1,037 people in the United States had the surname Milroy in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 297,730 Americans. It ranked 24,214th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Milroy?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Milroy identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Milroy getting more or less common?: More common. 997 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,037 in 2010, up 4.0%.