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Mileva

Girls' name

Gracious, dear

Mileva has been given to 71 babies in the U.S. since 2014. 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 2018, with 13 recorded.

Babies named Mileva, 2024

1 in 669,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mileva: meaning, origin, and history

Gracious, dear

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Mileva means

Mileva means “gracious, dear”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Mileva is used in Serbian and Macedonian.

Another recorded pronunciation is /mi.ˈlěː.va/ for Mileva.

Origin, language, and formation

Mileva is used in Serbo-Croatian.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Serbo-Croatian, Mileva is pronounced /milěːʋa/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 71 girls were recorded with the name Mileva between 2014 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 13 in 2018; its best national rank was #8,458 in 2018.

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 Mileva?

Mileva had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 669,000
5 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 324,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,412 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mileva 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 2024 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 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mileva. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Milevas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mileva was born before 2020 — so the typical Mileva is around 5 today.

Median birth year
2020
About 5 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
57.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
71
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 57.7% of all recorded uses (41).

Is Mileva 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2018 (13)
Years since peak
7
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
48.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#8,458
2018

Spellings of Mileva

Mileva is not the most common spelling — Mila is, with 47.7% against Mileva's 0.04%.

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.

Mileva around the world

Where Mileva 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.

  • France
    1985–2024
    #7,665
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1952–1970
    #707
    in 1970

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Mileva 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
—
Best rank ever
#8,458
2018
Peak year
2018
13 that year
First recorded
2014
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
71
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Mileva

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

MilleyMileyaMiloveMilahnMilinaMiloniMilcahMilaniiMillionMilennaMilahniMilynnMileleMilynMilainaMileneMilianMillsMilanyMiliahMilaneeMillaniMilleeMille

Sibling names for Mileva

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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