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Milika

Girls' name

Queen, through Melika

Milika has been given to 110 babies in the U.S. since 1974. 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 1978, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Milika, 2017

1 in 715,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Milika: meaning, origin, and history

Queen, through Melika

Arabic

What Milika means

Milika belongs to the name family reached through Milika → Melika. Its meaning is “queen”.

Origin, language, and formation

Milika is used in Albanian. Its origins include Arabic.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Melika.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Albanian, Milika is pronounced /miˈlika/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 110 girls were recorded with the name Milika between 1974 and 2017. Its highest annual count was 11 in 1978; its best national rank was #5,830 in 1978.

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 Milika?

Milika had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2017, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2017
1 in 715,000
5 of 3,577,106 births
Among girls only
1 in 345,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2017
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
495,893 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Milika 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 2017 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 495,893 children born in 2017 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Milika. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Milikas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Milika was born before 1990 — so the typical Milika is around 35 today.

Median birth year
1990
About 35 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
47.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
35.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
110
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 47.3% of all recorded uses (52).

Is Milika 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 1978 (11)
Years since peak
47
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,830
1978

Spellings of Milika

Milika is not the most common spelling — Mila is, with 25.7% against Milika'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.

Milika around the world

Where Milika 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
    2008–2011
    #4,764
    in 2011
  • South Australia
    1998–2008
    #796
    in 2008

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Milika 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
#5,830
1978
Peak year
1978
11 that year
First recorded
1974
Last recorded
2017
All-time count
110
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Milika

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

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Sibling names for Milika

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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