girls:
615 births since 1901
#5101 (11th percentile)
boys:
117.7k births since 1880
#272 (94th percentile)
overall:
118.3k births since 1880
#607 (92nd percentile)
The name Milton is the #607 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 118,289 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 92.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 92.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #272 (94.1% percentile) for all time with 117,674 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,101 (10.7% percentile) for all time with 615 births since 1901.
Milton has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1901 for girls).
The name Milton has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.5% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Milton reached its peak popularity in 1919, achieving the 86.7% percentile (ranked #72) with 2,411 births per million. The name was most common in 1912, with 2,922 births per million (ranked 83.8% percentile). Despite a low point around 2019, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for boys. Currently, Milton ranks #789 for boys (13.4% percentile) with 69 births per million, which is 2.4% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Milton reached its peak popularity in 1918, achieving the 2.7% percentile (ranked #574) with 17 births per million. The name was most common in 1901, with 20 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1989.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Milton".
These names exclude other spelling variations of this name. View all variations of Milton.
These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Milton", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. These names exclude other spelling variations of this name. View all variations of Milton.
Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Milton. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 85.0% confident that Milton is pronounced as MIHL-tuhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is MEEL-tuhn, at 15.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
If none of the pronunciations above sound right to you, could you please check whether any of these related pronunciations should be applied to the name Milton? These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Milton. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Milton, please vote using the thumbs up button.
Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.
For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like M IH1 L T AH0 N) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
© 2025 NamePlay.org
Made with ❤️ by Aaron J Becker