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Milda

Girls' name

Friendly, through Milda

Milda has been given to 878 babies in the U.S. since 1888. 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 1918, with 38 recorded.

Babies named Milda, 1973

1 in 603,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Milda: meaning, origin, and history

Friendly, through Milda

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Milda means

Milda belongs to the name family reached through Milda → Milda. Its meaning is “friendly”.

Origin, language, and formation

Milda is used in Czech, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian and Swedish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Miloslav, Miloslava, Emīlija, Mathilde, Mille, Matilda and Milda.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Czech, Milda is pronounced [ˈmɪlda].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 878 girls were recorded with the name Milda between 1888 and 1973. Its highest annual count was 38 in 1918; its best national rank was #936 in 1896.

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 Milda?

Milda had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1973, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1973
1 in 603,000
5 of 3,016,706 births
Among girls only
1 in 292,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1973
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
418,205 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Milda 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 1973 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 418,205 children born in 1973 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Milda. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mildas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Milda was born before 1921 — so the typical Milda is around 104 today.

Median birth year
1921
About 104 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
25.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
12.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
102
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1910s — 25.2% of all recorded uses (221).

Is Milda 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 1918 (38)
Years since peak
107
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
38.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#936
1896

Spellings of Milda

Milda is not the most common spelling — Linda is, with 48.1% against Milda's 0.03%.

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 Milda is used

Across 1910–2025, Milda was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 896,624 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in —
  2. 2Texas1 in —

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. Milda has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Milda around the world

Where Milda 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
    2006–2023
    #4,710
    in 2023
  • France
    1912–2013
    #7,624
    in 2013
  • South Australia
    1949–1962
    #647
    in 1962

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.

Milda 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
#936
1896
Peak year
1918
38 that year
First recorded
1888
Last recorded
1973
All-time count
878
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Milda

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

MilkaMileeMilliMillaMilesMiliaMilahMilyMiliMillyMiloMilayaMileahMilicaMilcaMilianaMileaMilianiMilleeMillerMilanyMillsMilynTilda

Sibling names for Milda

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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