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Milena

#950 in 2025Girls' name

Dear, kind

Milena has been given to 7,749 babies in the U.S. since 1918. In 2025 it ranked #950 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2019, with 428 recorded.

Babies named Milena, 2025

1 in 12,200

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Milena: meaning, origin, and history

Dear, kind

Slavic languages

What Milena means

Milena means “dear, kind”, associated with mìlъ.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Slavic, ultimately from Proto-Slavic *mìlъ (“dear, kind”).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Milena (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Milena is used in English, Czech, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Serbo-Croatian and Slovak. Its origins include Slavic languages.

Milena comes through Proto-Slavic *mìlъ.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Milan.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Czech, Milena is pronounced [ˈmɪlɛna].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 7,749 girls were recorded with the name Milena between 1918 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 428 in 2019; its best national rank was #678 in 2019.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #829 in 2020 to #950 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #758 in 2015 to #950 in 2025.

How common is Milena?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 12,200
271 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 5,930
0.02% of girls
Rank, 2025
#950
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
8,480 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Milena 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 5004%

Put another way: gather 8,480 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Milena. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Milenas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Milena was born before 2015 — so the typical Milena is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
41.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
84.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
7,712
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 41.5% of all recorded uses (3,218).

Is Milena 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
−165
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−121
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−192
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.73×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
63.3%
Peak was 2019 (428)
Years since peak
6
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
14.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#678
2019

Spellings of Milena

Milena is not the most common spelling — Lena is, with 19.0% against Milena's 1.0%.

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 Milena is used

Across 2016–2025, Milena was most concentrated in Massachusetts — about 1 in 2,222 girls, against 1 in 4,075 across all states with data. It was least common in Oklahoma (1 in 33,333).

345 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Massachusetts1 in 2,222
  2. 2New Jersey1 in 2,326
  3. 3Florida1 in 2,500
  4. 4Illinois1 in 2,500
  5. 5Arizona1 in 3,030
  6. 6California1 in 3,226
  7. 7Minnesota1 in 3,448
  8. 8Nevada1 in 3,448

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, Milena is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 62% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Milena around the world

Where Milena 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
    1996–2025
    #922
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2007–2023
    #630
    in 2023
  • Northern Ireland
    2012–2020
    #333
    in 2020
  • Ireland
    2005–2025
    #718
    in 2025
  • France
    1923–2025
    #563
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #315
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #526
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1952–2013
    #818
    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 Milena

People whose public names include Milena, 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.

Milena in other languages

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

MilanaMyleneAmátaMylène

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

Milena by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#950
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 121
Best rank ever
#678
2019
Peak year
2019
428 that year
First recorded
1918
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
7,749
Count in 2025
271

Names similar to Milena

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

MileenaMilanaMilaniMilanMillerMakenaMileyRowenaMilaniaMillySalenaAleenaCelenaMilahMillieMilagrosMalenaJimenaMillaKarenaSirenaMilagroMillenaArlena

Names with a curve like Milena

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

AyaSloanKarsynHadassahIvannaLivZainabZahraElinaMalayaEllisonEmmeline

Sibling names for Milena

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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