Milo
For 2025 the count puts Milo at #119 nationwide, at or near its all-time peak. It has been on the books since 1880 and never mattered more than it does today; 43,847 bearers and counting.
What Milo carries
Milo · Greek
“crusher”
Source: Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), see our sources.
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Five printables for Milo, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Milo since 1880
Milo peaked in 2022 at #120; #119 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Milo is most common
The state that gives Milo most often, per boys born there, is Wyoming (0.83% in 2025); Vermont and Hawaii are close behind.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Milo
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Margot
#102 in 2025 · Greek
Myles
#100 in 2025 · Greek
Maisie
#233 in 2025 · Greek
Milan
#242 in 2025 · Greek
Miles
#44 in 2025 · Greek
Cora
#113 in 2025 · Greek
Damian
#109 in 2025 · Greek
Lydia
#92 in 2025 · Greek
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About Milo
How popular is the name Milo?
For 2025 the count puts Milo at #119 nationwide, at or near its all-time peak. The chart above draws the whole run since 1880, from the Social Security Administration's public data.
Does Milo have a meaning on record?
In our cited reference the recorded gloss is “crusher”, of Greek origin (Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884)).
Which names sit near Milo?
The recipe puts Margot first, then Maisie, on shared origin, a peak within fifteen years, matching syllables and a shared first letter. Run the sibling matcher with your own names for a list scored against them.
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