Milo is the Old German form of Miles. It originates from the Latin word ‘miles’ meaning ‘soldier’. Milo is in use as a name in English speaking countries since the 19th century.
Milo is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
The name Milo isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Milo ranks 197. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 11 were named Milo. In the entire USA, approximately 29,657 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Milo. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
Milo is the Old German form of Miles. It originates from the Latin word ‘miles’ meaning ‘soldier’. Milo is in use as a name in English speaking countries since the 19th century.
Milo is an alternate name... of the portia tree, that is native to the coastal regions of Africa and tropical Asia. In the United States, it is naturalized in Florida.
For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their son Milo annualy. This means that there have been boys named Milo who witnessed the first Labor Day parade in the U.S. or followed Albert Einstein's career. The name has 'always been there', but never ranked in the top 100, and thus men named Milo have consistently been special. Since 2000, however, the name has experienced a certain popularity: in 2022, it holds its present record of #117 in the list of the most popular boys' names.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Milo was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
The name Milo may not be in the top rankings of the most popular boys’ names, but it is one of the few male given names, along with only 385 others, that can be found in every single state in the U.S. from Alaska to Florida and from California to New York. Of course, the name occurs more frequently in some states than in others – and Milo is apparently especially popular in Utah. Although the name is not one of the top 100 most popular men’s names here either, one in 1,249 men in Utah is called Milo. In total, that’s 1,090 people who feel addressed when the name Milo is shouted loudly across Utah and who ensure that their name makes it to #281 in our SmartGenius ranking of the most common male names in this nice state. If you asked all people in the entire U.S. for their first name, you would hear Milo as the answer a total of 29,657 times. This places Milo at #568 in our SmartGenius statistics for the most popular male names in the whole of the USA. This is true for all currently living people across all states and age groups – the recent popularity of the name Milo as a baby name is, of course, a bit different, as you can see from the statistics above.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter M is a particularly popular initial letter for boys’ names – 6.2% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for boys’ names are J and A.
With four letters, the name Milo is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 6.2% of all boys' names that begin with an M, this first letter is much more common than the other letters on average. If you are now wondering which boys’ name with M is the most common... the answer is Michael.
If your name is Milo and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Milo, you can simply say:
Mouse
Igloo
Lion
Orange
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Milo
Milo
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
M
I
L
O
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
M
I
L
O
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Milo sounds like this:
