Milo
From Latin, carrying the old senses of merciful and dear, though most now read it as English. In Poland it stays rare, a name few people have ever met, yet more boys get it each passing year.
Milo Pronunciation
Milo is pronounced MEE-lo (/ˈmilɔ/).
What Milo means
Where Milo comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Milo comes from Latin, a short name with a long pedigree. The senses of "merciful" and "dear" gathered around it over time, tied in some readings to a Latin adjective for the mild and the kindly. English speakers took it up and shaped it into one of their own. The name reads as English now.
Readers of English fiction have met a Milo before. Joseph Heller gave the name to Milo Minderbinder, the scheming mess officer of Catch-22, published in 1961. That character is hardly a model of mercy, yet the name kept its warmer reputation elsewhere.
On a Polish class register, Milo settles in among the Emils and the Miłoszes, four letters a teacher can read out without stumbling. The Latin root stays underneath, and the plain meaning surfaces in Polish as miły and łaskawy.
How many people are named Milo
1 in 78768 men in Poland is named Milo. 287 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1791 among male names.
Milo's popularity over time
14 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #618 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2009.
Where Milo is most popular
Milo is most popular in Masovian, 192% above the national average (23 boys born 2019–2025), followed by Lower Silesian (+43%) and Warmian-Masurian (+25%). It is least common in Lesser Poland and Silesian, 60% and 41% below average respectively.
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Masovian23 boys born+192%
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Lower Silesian5 boys born+43%
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Warmian-Masurian2 boys born+25%
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Pomeranian4 boys born+22%
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Greater Poland5 boys born+5%
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Subcarpathian2 boys born−25%
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Łódź2 boys born−29%
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Silesian3 boys born−41%
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Lesser Poland2 boys born−60%
Milo as a middle name
Milo is a first name for 287 men in Poland and a middle name for another 46, an 86/14 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1137th, between Marcelin (46) and Saeed (46).
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#1135 Kiran46
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#1136 Marcelin46
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#1137 Milo46
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#1138 Saeed46
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#1139 Tesfaye46