Milo

A Latinate variant of Miles.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaɪloʊ/

Milo

1. A male given name from the Germanic languages.
   • 1989, Pat Cadigan, Patterns, Ursus Imprints, →ISBN, page 12:

     Stevie didn't care. At least he didn't have an oddball name like Milo and he never had to get up for church on Sunday.

   • 2011, Ali Smith, There but for the, Hamish Hamilton, →ISBN, page 191:

     Just one thing, if I may, Mark said. It's Miles, his name. Not Milo.
     Yeah, I know, Anna's always going on about that too. But Milo's better, Milo's got something about it, hasn't it? the man said. It's catchier. It's catching on round the camp, Milo, where Miles sounds a bit, well, wet. A bit middle class, you know?

2. An English surname originating as a patronymic transferred from the given name.

• OIML, limo, moil

From Czech Milo, short for Miloslav.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmilo/,
• Rhymes: -ilo
• Hyphenation^(key): Mi‧lo

Milo

1. a male given name

• Milo is the 270^th most common male given name in Finland, belonging to 1,743 male individuals (and as a middle name to 329 more), and also belongs to 34 female individuals (and as a middle name to 14 more), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.

Cognate to English Miles and Milo.

• IPA^(key): /mi.lo/

Milo m

1. a male given name

From Ancient Greek Μῆλος (Mêlos).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmi.lo/
• Rhymes: -ilo
• Hyphenation: Mì‧lo

Milo f

1. Milos (an island in Greece)

• Lomi, limo, limò, moli, olmi

Milō m (genitive Milōnis); third declension

1. a cognomen

Third-declension noun.

Serbian Wikipedia has an article on:

Мило (име)

Wikipedia ^sr

• IPA^(key): /mǐːlo/

Mȉlo m (Cyrillic spelling Ми̏ло)

1. a male given name

• “Milo”, in Portal suvremenih hrvatskih osobnih imena [Portal of contemporary Croatian personal names] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2018–2024

• IPA^(key):

Milo m pers (female equivalent Milová)

1. a male surname

• “Milo”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2024

• IPA^(key): /mi.ˈlɔ/

Milo

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Milo