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Milla

#3,816 in 2025Girls' name

Short form of Camilla

Milla has been given to 2,136 babies in the U.S. since 1892. In 2025 it ranked #3,816 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2011, with 144 recorded.

Babies named Milla, 2025

1 in 85,000

Milla over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Milla: meaning, origin, and history

Short form of Camilla

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Milla means

Milla is a short form of Camilla.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Milla is used in Finnish, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish and Hungarian.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈmil.lɑ/ for Milla.

Origin, language, and formation

Milla is used in Estonian and Finnish.

Milla comes through Latin Aemilia.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Camilla, Emilie and Emilia.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Milla is pronounced /ˈmilːɑ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,136 girls were recorded with the name Milla between 1892 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 144 in 2011; its best national rank was #1,401 in 1892.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,845 in 2020 to #3,816 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,309 in 2015 to #3,816 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Milla?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 85,000
39 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 41,200
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,816
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
58,922 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Milla 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 58,922 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Milla. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Millas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Milla was born before 2010 — so the typical Milla is around 15 today.

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
42.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
90.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,065
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 42.5% of all recorded uses (908).

Is Milla 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
+449
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−971
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,507
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.48×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
27.1%
Peak was 2011 (144)
Years since peak
14
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,401
1892

Spellings of Milla

Milla is not the most common spelling — Ella is, with 14.0% against Milla's 0.09%.

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 Milla is used

Across 1910–2025, Milla was most concentrated in Arizona — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 110,161 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arizona1 in 50,000
  2. 2California1 in 50,000
  3. 3Florida1 in 50,000
  4. 4Texas1 in 50,000
  5. 5Colorado1 in 100,000
  6. 6New York1 in 100,000
  7. 7Washington1 in 100,000
  8. 8Georgia1 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. Milla has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Milla around the world

Where Milla 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
    1997–2025
    #3,705
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2005–2022
    #760
    in 2022
  • Ireland
    2006–2024
    #898
    in 2024
  • France
    1933–2025
    #654
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #273
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1998–2024
    #2,256
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1999–2013
    #76
    in 2013
  • New South Wales
    2011–2012
    #98
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada, Consumer and Business Services (South Australia) and NSW Registry of Births, Deaths & Marriages. ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, SSB, CBS SA, NSW BDM data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Milla

People whose public names include Milla, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Milla in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Milla. Linked forms have their own page here.

MilaMilleLudmilla

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Milla by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,816
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 971
Best rank ever
#1,401
1892
Peak year
2011
144 that year
First recorded
1892
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,136
Count in 2025
39

Names similar to Milla

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

MilahMillyMillerVellaMilkaRillaMilanMileenaMileeMilliMilagroRellaMilesMilanaMiliaNellaMilaniaCallaLillaMileyMilenaOzellaMildaIlla

Names with a curve like Milla

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Milla, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

BrylieCaelynKaniyahAriyannaCayleighJailynnJasleenJaslynnCarysTanviAmerieLillyan

Sibling names for Milla

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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