Milo (name)

Milo (/ˈmiːloʊ/ MEE-loh) is a masculine given name and a surname. The name Milo is derived from multiple sources. In the Slavic languages, the root mil- means "dear" or "beloved," and the name may have come from a Latinized form of this root. However, it is also believed that the name may derive from the Latin word "miles," meaning "soldier". It is also believed that the word comes from the ancient Greek "milos," which means "of the yew-flower". The name also bears Germanic and Gothic origins, with the word "milo," meaning "the great merciful".

The name Milo has documented usage as far back as the c. 9th-century BC ancient Greece. It was first brought into use in the English language after the Norman Conquest in the 11th-century AD.

The names: Milos, Mylo, Milós, Miklós, Miles, Miilo and Miloš are all variants derived from the name. Whilst the feminine equivalents to the name Milo is either Mila or Myla.

Name statistics

In 2020 it ranked as the 134th most popular boys name in the United States.

People

Given name

Milo of Croton, 6th-century BC ancient Greek wrestler
Milo (bishop of Trier) (died 762 or 763), Archbishop of Reims and of Trier
Milo I of Montlhéry (died 1102), Lord of Montlhéry
Milo M. Acker (1853–1922), New York politician
Milo Aukerman (born 1963), American biochemist and lead singer of the punk rock band the Descendents
Milo Samuel Baker (1868–1961), American botanist
Milo Butler (1906–1979), first Bahamian governor-general
Milo Cawthorne (born 1989), New Zealand actor
Milo Cipra (1906–1985), Croatian composer
Milo Colton (born 1943), American politician
Milo de Angelis (born 1951), Italian language poet
Milo Dor (1923–2005), Serbian-Austrian author
Milo Duçi (1870–1933), Albanian publisher, playwright, and entrepreneur
Milo Đukanović (born 1962), former Prime Minister and current President of Montenegro
Milo Eifler (born 1998), American football player
Milo Gibson (born 1990), American actor
Milo Emil Halbheer (1910–1978), German painter
Milo Hamilton (1927–2015), American sportscaster
Milo Hrnić (1950–2023), Croatian pop singer
Milo Kendall (1819–1905), American lawyer
Milo Manara (born 1945), Italian artist
Milo Manheim (born 2001), American actor
Milo Milunović (1897–1967), Yugoslav and Montenegrin painter
Milo Moiré (born 1983), Swiss artist
Milo A. Root (1863–1917), justice of the Washington Supreme Court
Milo O'Shea (1926–2013), Irish actor
Milo Parker (born 2002), English actor
Milo Petrović-Njegoš (1889–1978), prince of Montenegro
Milo Quesada (1930–2012), Argentine actor
Milo Radulovich (1926–2007), American US Air Force reserve accused of having Communist sympathies
Milo Rau (born 1977), Swiss theater director
Milo Silvestro, Italian musician and lead vocalist of American heavy metal band Fear Factory
Milo Ventimiglia (born 1977), American film actor
Milo Yiannopoulos (born 1983), British media personality

Surname

Candi Milo (born 1961), American actress
Federico Milo (born 1992), Argentine footballer
Leon Milo (1956–2014), American composer, percussionist and sound artist
Luciano Milo (born 1980), Italian figure skater
Ray Milo (born 1954), American football player
Roni Milo (born 1949), Israeli politician and 10th mayor of Tel Aviv
Sandra Milo (1933–2024), Italian actress

Places

Milos, island that is a part of the Aegean Islands of Greece

Fictional characters

Milo Bloom, in Berkeley Breathed's comic strip Bloom County
Milo Kerrigan, in the Australian television series Full Frontal
Milo Minderbinder, in Joseph Heller's novels Catch-22 and Closing Time
Frank Milo, played by Bill Murray in the 1993 American crime comedy-drama movie Mad Dog and Glory
Milo Fishtooth, the main character in the animated television series Fish Hooks
Milo Murphy, from Milo Murphy's Law, an American animated television series
Milo Powell, the protagonist of the Canadian-Filipino animated series Captain Flamingo
Milo Pressman, in the American television series 24
Milo Rambaldi, in the American television series Alias
Milo Standish, in Brothers, a 1986 novel by William Goldman
Milo James Thatch, the protagonist of the Disney film Atlantis: The Lost Empire
Milo Tindle, the lover of Andrew Wyke's wife in Sleuth, the 1970 play by Anthony Shaffer; played by Michel Caine in the 1972 film
Milo, former byname of American rapper and philosopher Rory Allen Phillip Ferreira
Milo, the amnesiac driver of the "real Christine" in the 2015 horror adventure novel series Demon Road
Milo, the protagonist of the 1961 children's adventure novel The Phantom Tollbooth
Milo, the purple-skinned character in the children's television show Tweenies
Professor Milo, an enemy of Batman in the DC Comics universe
Milo Castello, one of the protagonists of the Brazilian RPG "O Segredo na Ilha", he is played by Matthew Magrath
Milo, a dog belonging to the main character in The Mask
Milo, the mascot of the 2026 Winter Paralympics