# 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 latinised 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 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