The Millican surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 3,779 people carried this name — #8,690 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 78,100 people counted. That is up 2% from 3,710 in 2000.

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In Argentina’s national register

At least 74 people named Millican live in Argentina.

RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Buenos Aires Province.

Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.

Where they live today

Buenos Aires Province 48
Tucumán 26

RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.

Among the farmers of England and Wales, 1880s

Millican was found among the farmers of 2 counties.

It was most frequent in Cumberland and Westmorland: 35 in every 10,000 farmers there — about 1 in 286. Guppy counted the farmers listed in each county’s directory and recorded a name only where it reached about 7 in every 10,000; where it does not appear, it was rarer than that, not absent. His list gives one count for the spellings Millican and Millikin.

Where it concentrates, on the map

Per 10,000 farmers, by county

Cumberland and Westmorland 35
Northumberland 14

H. B. Guppy, «Homes of Family Names in Great Britain» (London, 1890), alphabetical list of English and Welsh names — public domain · farmers in Kelly’s Post Office Directories of the 1880s, per 10,000 farmers in each county.

In print

Millican in American newspapers,
1871–1921.

Newspaper page from New Orleans Republican carrying the name Millican
New Orleans Republican 1871-06-07
Newspaper page from Rockingham Post-dispatch carrying the name Millican
Rockingham Post-dispatch 1919-03-06
Newspaper page from Rockingham Post-dispatch carrying the name Millican
Rockingham Post-dispatch 1921-01-27

Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 7,102 pages in all carry the name.

In print

Millican in Australian newspapers,
1850s–1990s.

6,573 articles name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Millican. The most, 1,573, date from the 1900s. Queensland has the most articles, but weighed against how much of each state’s press from the same decades has been digitised, the name stands out most in the Northern Territory, at 42.2 times its expected share.

Articles, by state

Queensland 4,801
New South Wales 595
South Australia 532
Northern Territory 341
Victoria 224
Western Australia 42
Tasmania 29
ACT (Canberra) 7

Trove, National Library of Australia (trove.nla.gov.au) · articles in its digitised newspapers that name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Millican.

Who carried it

People named Millican,
with a public archive behind them.

  • Joe Millican
    Joe Millican 1855–1934 · politician
  • William J. Millican
    William J. Millican 1904–1944 · military personnel
  • James Millican
    James Millican 1910–1955 · actor
  • James Millican
    James Millican 1911–1955 · actor
  • Lisa Ann Millican 1969–1982

Wikidata (CC0) · portraits via Wikimedia Commons, shown cropped, in the public domain or CC0 · 7 lives in all are documented under this name.

In the public record

People named Millican,
in the records of 5 countries.

Soldiers, farmers, migrants and neighbours who carried the name and left a trace in public archives. Everyone shown here died long ago or was born more than a century ago.

United States254 records

254 records of the Millican name in the United States
  • U.S. Army enlistment records, World War II 148
  • U.S. veterans' cemetery records, burials to 2001 67
  • New York City birth, marriage and death certificates 13
  • Passenger arrivals in the United States, 1820–1912 10
  • U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955 9
  • Irish Famine arrivals at New York, 1846–1851 6
  • U.S. service members who died in the Vietnam War 1
  1. A United States Selective Service registration card, 1942
    Example: U.S. registration card, 1942
    Military record Kenneth R. Millican

    Born 1918 in Alabama. Enlisted 1944 at Fort McClellan; sales clerk from Marion County. U.S. Army veteran of World War II and the Korean War; died 1999, buried at Hamilton City Cemetery, Alabama.

    U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)
  2. A passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, arriving at New York in 1903
    Example: passenger manifest, 1903
    Passenger record Mary Millican

    Arrived at New York in 1873 aboard the Algeria from Liverpool and Queenstown, aged 18; servant. From Ireland.

    U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted)
  3. Names engraved on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington, D.C.
    Example: U.S. war memorial
    War record Malcolm Edward Millican

    Born 1936; from Orlando, Florida. U.S. Marine Corps; died of wounds 1965 in Quang Nam, South Vietnam.

    U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain)

Showing 3 of 254 records for Millican in the United States.

Counts: U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain) · U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) · NYC Department of Records & Information Services, Historical Vital Records (NYC Open Data) · U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted) · U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain) · U.S. National Archives, Famine Irish Passenger Records (public domain) · U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: U.S. Selective Service registration card, 1942 (public domain); Passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, New York, 1903 (public domain); Vietnam Veterans Memorial, photo by U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael J. Carden, 2009 (public domain).

Australia163 records

163 records of the Millican name in Australia
  • Queensland State Archives indexes 122
  • Victoria passenger lists, 1839–1923 29
  • NSW convict, estate and railway indexes 5
  • Tasmanian Names Index 4
  • Victoria wills and probate, deaths to 2001 3
  1. An 1829 etching of convicts being rowed out to the prison ship York in Portsmouth Harbour
    Pictured: convicts going on board a prison ship, 1829
    Transportation record Sarah Millican

    Transported to Van Diemen's Land aboard the Elizabeth & Henry, sailing from London in 1846. Native of Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.

    Libraries Tasmania, Tasmanian Names Index (CC BY 4.0)
  2. A passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, arriving at New York in 1903
    Example: passenger manifest, 1903
    Passenger record Thos Millican

    Arrived in Victoria in 1858 aboard the Morning Star, aged 23; Irish.

    Public Record Office Victoria (CC BY 4.0)
  3. A petition to the probate court of St. Louis, 1848
    Example: probate petition, 1848
    Probate record Paul William Millican

    Transport driver of Pascoe Vale, Victoria; died 1984.

    Public Record Office Victoria (CC BY 4.0)

Showing 3 of 163 records for Millican in Australia.

Counts: Queensland State Archives (CC BY 4.0) · Public Record Office Victoria (CC BY 4.0) · Museums of History NSW – State Archives Collection (CC BY) · Libraries Tasmania, Tasmanian Names Index (CC BY 4.0). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Prison-ship in Portsmouth Harbour, with the convicts going on board, etching by Edward William Cooke, 1829, Royal Museums Greenwich (public domain); Passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, New York, 1903 (public domain); Petition to the probate court, St. Louis, 1848, Missouri Historical Society (public domain).

Canada30 records

30 records of the Millican name in Canada
  • City of Calgary cemetery records 16
  • Canadian Virtual War Memorial 6
  • Nova Scotia Archives name indexes 5
  • War Office casualty lists, 1917–1919, among the dead 2
  • Ontario immigration records, 1865–1883 1
  1. Fairview Lawn Cemetery in Halifax, Nova Scotia
    Example: Canadian cemetery
    Burial record Robert Millican

    Buried in 1918 at Union Cemetery, Calgary, Alberta, aged 37.

    City of Calgary. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – City of Calgary.
  2. A page of the Berlin civil register, 1880
    Example: civil register, 1880
    Death record Nancy Millican

    Died 1899 in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

    Nova Scotia Archives. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Nova Scotia.
  3. A Canadian First World War grave register card for a soldier who died of wounds in 1917
    Example: Canadian war grave register, 1917
    War record William Duncan Millican

    Died in service in 1916.

    Veterans Affairs Canada. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Canada.

Showing 3 of 30 records for Millican in Canada.

Counts: City of Calgary. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – City of Calgary. · Veterans Affairs Canada. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Canada. · Nova Scotia Archives. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Nova Scotia. · National Library of Scotland, War Office Weekly Casualty Lists (public domain) · Archives of Ontario. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Ontario. Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Fairview Lawn Cemetery, Halifax, photo by Edgar El (CC BY 3.0); Civil register, Berlin, 1880, Landesarchiv Berlin (CC0); Canadian First World War circumstances-of-death register (scan by Scottgraham87 via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0).

United Kingdom2 records

2 records of the Millican name in the United Kingdom War Office casualty lists, 1917–1919, among the dead
  1. A First World War roll of honour of the staff of C. & E. Morton Ltd
    Example: roll of honour, 1914–1919
    War record F. N. Millican

    Royal Sussex Regiment. Listed among the dead in the War Office casualty list of 1917.

    National Library of Scotland, War Office Weekly Casualty Lists (public domain)
  2. A First World War roll of honour of the staff of C. & E. Morton Ltd
    Example: roll of honour, 1914–1919
    War record M. Millican

    Orthumberland Fusiliers. Listed among the dead in the War Office casualty list of 1918.

    National Library of Scotland, War Office Weekly Casualty Lists (public domain)

Counts: National Library of Scotland, War Office Weekly Casualty Lists (public domain). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: C. & E. Morton Ltd roll of honour, 1914–1919, photo by Adrian S Pye via Geograph (CC BY-SA 2.0).

France1 record

1 record of the Millican name in France France's national death register, 1970–2001
  1. A page of the death register of Nice, 1930
    Example: French death register, 1930
    Death record Alfred Jack Millican

    Born 1919 in Great Britain; died 2000 in Cannes (Alpes-Maritimes).

    Insee, Fichier des personnes décédées (Licence Ouverte)

Counts: Insee, Fichier des personnes décédées (Licence Ouverte). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Death register of Nice, 1930, Archives départementales des Alpes-Maritimes (public domain).

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