Millen — boys' name
26 babies named Millen in U.S. Social Security records since 2000, with the highest year being 2000. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
65% of everyone ever named Millen was born in this single decade.
9 babies were named Millen in 2000 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Millen
The Social Security Administration has registered 26 babies named Millen between 2000 and 2016, spanning 17 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Millen currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2016. The name reached its historical peak in 2000, when 9 babies received it in a single year. Millen is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 5 additional births since 2024.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Millen performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 17 births during that ten-year window. Across the 2 decades of recorded activity, Millen shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Millen in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Millen in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 26 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Millen at a glance
Last recorded 2016Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Millen popularity over time — boys
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2016–2000
- Peak year (2000)
- 9
- Annual births at peak — across 17 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2016.
26 total births across 17 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2000 with 9 births in a single year.
Millen popularity over time — girls
5 total births recorded since 2024 (Millen as girls' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The girls' variant of Millen accounts for 16% of total recorded use across both genders.
Millen by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 17 births that decade — 65% of Millen's all-time total
Millen decade highlights
- Peak decade 17 births
- Runner-up 9 births
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Millen's strongest decade
17 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 65% of all-time use.
Millen by state
Where Millen concentrates geographically — total births since 2000
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 5 | 19.2% |
5 of 26 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- California 19.2% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 19.2% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 2000–2016 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.