Milah
#1,689 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Milah has been given to 2,881 babies in the U.S. since 1997. In 2025 it ranked #1,689 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2018, with 236 recorded.
Babies named Milah, 2025
1 in 27,200
Milah over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Milah?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 27,200
- 122 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 13,200
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #1,689
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 18,836 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Milah sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 18,836 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Milah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Milahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Milah was born before 2017 — so the typical Milah is around 8 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 58.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 98.9%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 2,881
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 58.3% of all recorded uses (1,680).
Is Milah 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
- −171
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −521
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −501
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.57×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 51.7%
- Peak was 2018 (236)
- Years since peak
- 7
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 21.5% average annual change
Spellings of Milah
Milah is not the most common spelling — Mia is, with 33.1% against Milah's 0.31%.
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.
Where Milah is used
Across 2016–2025, Milah was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 5,556 girls, against 1 in 9,074 across all states with data. It was least common in Missouri (1 in 50,000).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in 5,556
- 2Florida1 in 5,556
- 3Ohio1 in 6,250
- 4Pennsylvania1 in 6,667
- 5Arizona1 in 7,143
- 6Nevada1 in 7,143
- 7Texas1 in 7,692
- 8North Carolina1 in 10,000
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.
Milah around the world
Where Milah 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 & Wales2010–2025#1,892in 2025
- Scotland2017–2025#539in 2025
- Northern Ireland2015–2021#446in 2021
- Ireland2020–2020#834in 2020
- France2014–2025#5,597in 2025
- Canada2008–2024#3,457in 2024
- South Australia2003–2013#818in 2013
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Milah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Milah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Milah
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Milah, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Milah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.