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Milada

Girls' name

Young, through Mlada

Milada has been given to 42 babies in the U.S. since 1916. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1917, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Milada, 2021

1 in 565,000

Milada over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Milada: meaning, origin, and history

Young, through Mlada

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Milada means

Milada belongs to the name family reached through Milada → Mlada. Its meaning is “young”.

Origin, language, and formation

Milada is used in Czech and Slovak.

Milada comes through Old Czech Mlada.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Mlada.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Czech, Milada is pronounced [ˈmɪlada].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 42 girls were recorded with the name Milada between 1916 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1917; its best national rank was #3,599 in 1917.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Milada?

Milada had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2021
1 in 565,000
6 of 3,389,958 births
Among girls only
1 in 273,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2021
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
391,624 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Milada sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2021 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 391,624 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Milada. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Miladas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Milada was born before 1918 — so the typical Milada is around 107 today.

Median birth year
1918
About 107 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
52.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
47.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
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1910s — 52.4% of all recorded uses (22).

Is Milada rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1917 (8)
Years since peak
108
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,599
1917

Spellings of Milada

Milada is not the most common spelling — Miranda is, with 29.4% against Milada's 0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Milada around the world

Where Milada ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2014–2014
    #5,691
    in 2014
  • France
    1925–1931
    #989
    in 1931
  • South Australia
    1958–1958
    #412
    in 1958

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Milada by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#3,599
1917
Peak year
1917
8 that year
First recorded
1916
Last recorded
2021
All-time count
42
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Milada

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Milada

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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