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Milana

#812 in 2025Girls' name

Feminine form of Milan

Milana has been given to 7,027 babies in the U.S. since 1947. In 2025 it ranked #812 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2015, with 421 recorded.

Babies named Milana, 2025

1 in 9,870

Milana over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Milana: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Milan

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Milana means

Milana is a feminine form of Milan.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Milana → Milan → Milan. The family’s meaning is “kite (bird)”, recorded in French with the source elements Milan.

Origin, language, and formation

Milana is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Milan.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 7,027 girls were recorded with the name Milana between 1947 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 421 in 2015; its best national rank was #678 in 2015.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #699 in 2020 to #812 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #678 in 2015 to #812 in 2025.

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 Milana?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 9,870
336 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 4,780
0.02% of girls
Rank, 2025
#812
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
6,840 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Milana 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 2025 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 5005%

Put another way: gather 6,840 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Milana. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Milanas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Milana was born before 2016 — so the typical Milana is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
47.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
94.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
7,021
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 47.7% of all recorded uses (3,349).

Is Milana 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
−29
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−113
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−134
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.80×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
79.8%
Peak was 2015 (421)
Years since peak
10
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
13.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#678
2015

Spellings of Milana

Milana is not the most common spelling — Diana is, with 31.4% against Milana's 0.60%.

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 Milana is used

Across 2016–2025, Milana was most concentrated in Washington — about 1 in 1,111 girls, against 1 in 3,741 across all states with data. It was least common in Alabama (1 in 33,333).

390 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Washington1 in 1,111
  2. 2Oregon1 in 1,587
  3. 3New Jersey1 in 2,381
  4. 4New York1 in 2,439
  5. 5Illinois1 in 2,500
  6. 6Florida1 in 2,632
  7. 7California1 in 3,030
  8. 8Massachusetts1 in 3,125

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.

Geographically, Milana is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 79% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Milana around the world

Where Milana 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
    2000–2025
    #568
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2007–2025
    #429
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2010–2024
    #407
    in 2024
  • Ireland
    2006–2025
    #483
    in 2025
  • France
    1997–2025
    #569
    in 2025
  • Norway
    2023–2025
    #391
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1996–2024
    #441
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1997–2013
    #536
    in 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 Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Milana

People whose public names include Milana, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Milana in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Milana. Linked forms have their own page here.

MilenaMyleneMiléna

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Milana by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#812
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 113
Best rank ever
#678
2015
Peak year
2015
421 that year
First recorded
1947
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
7,027
Count in 2025
336

Names similar to Milana

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

MilianaMillianaMilenaMilaniMillerMilanJohanaAryanaBryanaMilaniaIleanaAvianaMillyAlianaSavanaMileyAitanaAiyanaMilahBreanaRoxanaDelanaQuianaOriana

Names with a curve like Milana

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Milana, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

LivZariyahElliotMarleighHarmoniAliannaEllisonAmayahSariyahLylahElinaAzariah

Sibling names for Milana

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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