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Millán
Say it: mee-YAN
Meaning
From Latin Aemilianus, from the Roman family name Aemilius, of uncertain meaning.
Likelythe main view, with some doubt.
The monastery of San Millán de la Cogolla, whose glosses hold some of the earliest written Spanish and Basque, bears his name.
Its wave through time
Rare in the records
In the United States
- 184 babies given this name since 1925
- At its height in 2015, about 1 in 106,300 boys
- 12 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
| Latin | Aemilianus |
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Famous bearers
- Saint Aemilian (San Millán de la Cogolla)
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Where this comes from
- Lives of the saints and early Christian martyrologies
- Calendars of saints and name days
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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Meanings and histories are drawn from the study of names and their languages, each with a confidence rating; popularity figures come from official birth records. Name histories are a living field: if you know of a correction, we would be glad to hear it.