Milliken Surname Meaning & Coat of Arms

Arms linked to Milligan and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to.

Meaning of the name

Clerks wrote Milligan in many ways, and Milliken is one that stuck. The name is generally explained as “Grandson of Maolagan (little, bald one)”.

Records show Milliken as one of the forms Milligan took over time. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them. Other spellings include Millikin, Millikan and Millican. Milliken ranked 5,892 in the 2010 US Census, with 5,857 people answering to the name.

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