Milburn
Milburn is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 574th, in 1908.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 191879 births
- Best rank
- #574in 1908
- Since 1884
- 2,234people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,234 boys have been named Milburn in the United States since 1884, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1918, with 79 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 79 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1928, and the 1920s alone account for 26%. It has spent 27 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Milburn | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 5 | |
| 1890s | 35 | |
| 1900s | 92 | |
| 1910s | 489 | |
| 1920s | 590 | |
| 1930s | 387 | |
| 1940s | 282 | |
| 1950s | 171 | |
| 1960s | 120 | |
| 1970s | 48 | |
| 1980s | 15 |
In 1918, its biggest year
Milburn was the 720th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1918 were John, William, James, Robert and Charles. See all of 1918.
Names that rose and fell with Milburn
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Estelpeak 1921
- Estillpeak 1919
- Arvelpeak 1921
- Odispeak 1921
- Murlpeak 1919
- Cecilpeak 1920
- Waldemarpeak 1915
- Cletuspeak 1922
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.