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Mille

#16,488 in 2025Girls' name

Derived form of Emilie

Mille has been given to 35 babies in the U.S. since 2009. In 2025 it ranked #16,488 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Mille, 2025

1 in 663,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mille: meaning, origin, and history

Derived form of Emilie

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Mille means

Mille is a derived form of Emilie.

Origin, language, and formation

Mille is used in Danish and Norwegian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Emilie.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 35 girls were recorded with the name Mille between 2009 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 8 in 2024; its best national rank was #11,807 in 2024.

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 Mille?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#16,488
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mille 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mille. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Milles were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mille was born before 2023 — so the typical Mille is around 2 today.

Median birth year
2023
About 2 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
68.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
35
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Choose a decade

2020s — 68.6% of all recorded uses (24).

Is Mille 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
−4,681
Places dropped
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
62.5%
Peak was 2024 (8)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
35.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#11,807
2024

Spellings of Mille

Mille is not the most common spelling — Jill is, with 14.2% against Mille's <0.01%.

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.

Mille around the world

Where Mille 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
    2000–2022
    #5,670
    in 2022
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #55
    in 2025

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Norway. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. SSB data under CC BY 4.0.

Mille by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#16,488
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#11,807
2024
Peak year
2024
8 that year
First recorded
2009
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
35
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Mille

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

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Sibling names for Mille

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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