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Milica

#10,641 in 2025Girls' name

Gracious, dear

Milica has been given to 410 babies in the U.S. since 1956. In 2025 it ranked #10,641 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2011, with 17 recorded.

Babies named Milica, 2025

1 in 368,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Milica: meaning, origin, and history

Gracious, dear

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Milica means

Milica means “gracious, dear”.

Origin, language, and formation

Milica is used in Serbo-Croatian and Slovak.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Serbo-Croatian, Milica is pronounced /mîlit͡sa/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 410 girls were recorded with the name Milica between 1956 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 17 in 2011; its best national rank was #5,308 in 1964.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #8,772 in 2020 to #10,641 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #7,871 in 2015 to #10,641 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.

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How common is Milica?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 368,000
9 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 179,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#10,641
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
255,323 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Milica 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Milica. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Milicas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Milica was born before 2006 — so the typical Milica is around 19 today.

Median birth year
2006
About 19 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
29.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
65.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
410
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Choose a decade

2010s — 29.3% of all recorded uses (120).

Is Milica 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
+4,057
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,869
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,770
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.60×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
52.9%
Peak was 2011 (17)
Years since peak
14
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,308
1964

Spellings of Milica

Milica is not the most common spelling — Monica is, with 45.4% against Milica's 0.07%.

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 Milica is used

Across 1910–2025, Milica was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 378,572 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Illinois1 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. Milica has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Milica around the world

Where Milica 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
    1996–2020
    #3,899
    in 2020
  • France
    1969–2020
    #4,749
    in 2020
  • Canada
    1994–2024
    #3,027
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1952–2012
    #871
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Milica by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#10,641
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,869
Best rank ever
#5,308
1964
Peak year
2011
17 that year
First recorded
1956
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
410
Count in 2025
9

Names similar to Milica

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

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Sibling names for Milica

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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