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Milton
Pronounced /ˈmɪltən/
Rank in 2024
#1,426
Born in 2024
128
Peak year
1920 · #74
Origin
Not recorded
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 128 boys were named Milton, about 1 in every 13,401.
- It peaked in 1920 with 2,592 babies, ranked #74.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 117,807 boys have been named Milton since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Milton per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 2.4Greatest1901–27
- 1.4Silent1928–45
- 0.7Boomers1946–64
- 0.3Gen X1965–80
- 0.2Millennials1981–96
- 0.1Gen Z1997–12
- <0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 39,974 babies, 2.39 per 1,000. Silent: 28,557 babies, 1.38 per 1,000. Boomers: 26,201 babies, 0.70 per 1,000. Gen X: 8,728 babies, 0.32 per 1,000. Millennials: 5,480 babies, 0.18 per 1,000. Gen Z: 3,598 babies, 0.11 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 1,803 babies, 0.08 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
The English place names are from Old English mylen (“mill”) or middel (“middle”) + tun (“settlement”).
- A male given name transferred from the surname.
- Origin
- Not recorded
- Say it
- /ˈmɪltən/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Milton, CC BY-SA 4.0.