Weirdly, the village the town was built around had that name originally: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middleton,_Milton_Keynes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mi

Weirdly, the village the town was built around had that name originally: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middleton,_Milton_Keynes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middleton,_Milton_Keynes Milton is a contraction of Middleton & Keynes was from the Norman de Cahaines family. There are a few other X Keynes dotted around the UK, all presumably on lands gifted to the de Cahaines family after the Norman conquest.