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

Surname
  • Candi Milo (born 1961), American voice actress
  • Leon Milo (1956–2014), American composer, percussionist and sound artist
  • Luciano Milo (born 1980), Italian figure skater
  • Roni Milo (born 1949), Israeli politician and 10th mayor of Tel Aviv
  • Sandra Milo (born 1933), Italian actress

Places

Fictional characters
  • Milo (Demon Road), in the Irish novel series The Demon Road Trilogy
  • 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 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

See also
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