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Milinda

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded; Sanskrit origin

Milinda has been given to 1,033 babies in the U.S. since 1945. 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 1972, with 37 recorded.

Babies named Milinda, 2024

1 in 669,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Milinda: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; Sanskrit origin

Sanskrit

What Milinda means

Milinda is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Milinda is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,033 girls were recorded with the name Milinda between 1945 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 37 in 1972; its best national rank was #2,058 in 1961.

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 Milinda?

Milinda 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 Milinda 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 Milinda. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Milindas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Milinda was born before 1974 — so the typical Milinda is around 51 today.

Median birth year
1974
About 51 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
24.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
14.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,007
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 24.8% of all recorded uses (256).

Is Milinda 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 1972 (37)
Years since peak
53
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
35.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,058
1961

Spellings of Milinda

Milinda is not the most common spelling — Linda is, with 77.5% against Milinda's 0.06%.

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 Milinda is used

Across 1910–2025, Milinda was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,131,748 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 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. Milinda has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Milinda around the world

Where Milinda 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
    1995–2013
    #6,634
    in 2013
  • South Australia
    1974–1999
    #729
    in 1999

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.

Milinda 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
#2,058
1961
Peak year
1972
37 that year
First recorded
1945
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
1,033
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Milinda

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

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Sibling names for Milinda

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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