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Milka

#12,749 in 2025Girls' name

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Milka has been given to 516 babies in the U.S. since 1960. In 2025 it ranked #12,749 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2001, with 24 recorded.

Babies named Milka, 2025

1 in 474,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Milka: meaning, origin, and history

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Milka means

Milka has more than one naming route in the cited origin entries: distinct naming traditions.

The naming story behind Milka

One of the source’s documented entries for Milka records a meaning of gracious, dear.

A separate documented entry treats Milka as a diminutive of Emilia. That is a personal-name relationship, which differs from translating the letters of the modern spelling into one universal English word. The linked origin entry identifies the context of this relationship.

A separate documented entry treats Milka as a form of Milcah. That is a personal-name relationship, which differs from translating the letters of the modern spelling into one universal English word. The linked origin entry identifies the context of this relationship.

Origin, language, and formation

Milka is used in Finnish and Serbo-Croatian.

Milka comes through Biblical Hebrew מלכה.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Emilia.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Milka is pronounced /ˈmilkɑ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 516 girls were recorded with the name Milka between 1960 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 24 in 2001; its best national rank was #4,949 in 2001.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #7,115 in 2020 to #12,749 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #8,779 in 2015 to #12,749 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 Milka?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 230,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#12,749
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Milka 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 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Milka. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Milkas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Milka was born before 2005 — so the typical Milka is around 20 today.

Median birth year
2005
About 20 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
32.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
64.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
516
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 32.4% of all recorded uses (167).

Is Milka 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
+275
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−5,634
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,970
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.54×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
29.2%
Peak was 2001 (24)
Years since peak
24
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
39.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,949
2001

Spellings of Milka

Milka is not the most common spelling — Mia is, with 25.9% against Milka'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.

Where Milka is used

Across 1910–2025, Milka was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 857,385 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. Milka has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Milka around the world

Where Milka 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
    2005–2025
    #4,867
    in 2025
  • France
    1926–2020
    #6,553
    in 2020
  • Canada
    1999–2024
    #2,710
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1952–1978
    #626
    in 1978

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.

Milka by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#12,749
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 5,634
Best rank ever
#4,949
2001
Peak year
2001
24 that year
First recorded
1960
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
516
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Milka

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

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Sibling names for Milka

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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