Mila

Popularity, 1880–2025

girls named Mila boys named Mila

By the numbers

Total US births

84,577

Estimated living today

83,000

Median age today

6

Peak year

2018

Best rank

14th

Rank in 2025

43rd

First recorded

1881

Girls / boys

84,489 / 88

How old the living Milas are

born that year still alive today

Of the 84,577 babies given the name since 1881, about 83,000 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 81,000 of them are children and 340 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2019 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where the name comes from

Origin Slavic languages

From a diminutive in many sla languages bg, mk, ru, sh, etc.) of female given names containing the element Mil-, -mila ("grace, beloved"), such as Ludmila, Milena, Milica, and of the cognates of Emily. Also from Spanish Mila.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Milas

• Mila Syvatska (born 1998)Ukrainian actor
• Míla Myslíková (1933–2005)1933-2005 Czech actress and writer

People named Mila with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Mila is most common

• CA14,074
• TX8,366
• FL6,440
• NY4,897
• IL3,566
• PA2,695
• MI2,692
• OH2,636
• AZ2,412
• NJ2,379

Relative to how many babies each state records, Mila is most concentrated in Nevada (3.2×), Arizona (2.4×), Florida (2.3×), Hawaii (1.7×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2018

The most popular girls’ names the year Mila peaked:

• Emma
• Olivia
• Ava
• Isabella
• Sophia
• Charlotte

All the names of 2018

Mila elsewhere

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Mila: births by region

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

By canton, Mila is most concentrated in Nidwalden, where 0.34% of children were given it – 30 of them.

Mila: rank by region

In 2025, Mila was given 5 times or more in 3 regions of Belgium. It has come first somewhere in 2 different years.

In 2024, Mila was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.

In 2025, Mila was given 2 times or more in 13 regions of Poland.

In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Mila appears in the lists for Province of Limburg (4th), Province of East Flanders (4th), Province of Antwerp (7th), Province of West Flanders (9th), Province of Flemish Brabant (11th), Province of Luxembourg (16th), Province of Liège (17th), Province of Namur (36th), Province of Walloon Brabant (42nd), Province of Hainaut (43rd) and Brussels-Capital Region (47th).

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Mila by city

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Mila among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Where Mila lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 1,295 women called Mila were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Women: the provinces where it is densest

Listed in 31 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 21 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Related names

• Mildred
• Miles
• Milton
• Millie
• Milo
• Milan
• Millard
• Miley
• Miller
• Millicent
• Milani
• Milagros

Mila against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

• Mila vs Mildred
• Mila vs Miles
• Mila vs Milton
• Mila vs Millie
• Mila vs Milo
• Mila vs Milan

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