Milai
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: IBGE, 2022
/milai/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated · uncertain
Milai is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Portugal than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 1.3M(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 10M
- PTPortugal≈1 in 150Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Portugal (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 9 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 155K (inferred from the name graph)
≈69 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Portugal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Milai counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PT Portugal | ≈69 est. | ≈1 in 155K | — | Milai | 6 |
| BR Brazil | 21 | 1 in 10M | 22 | Milai | 9 |
| NL Netherlands | 13 | 1 in 1.3M | 7 | — | — |
| US United States | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 50M | — | Milai | 7 |
| CO Colombia | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 13M | — | Milai | 6 |
| VE Venezuela | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 8.8M | — | Milai | 5 |
| UY Uruguay | ≈1 est. | ≈1 in 2.8M | — | Milai | 4 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Milai is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In sks, ginger
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Mīļi
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)9 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 22 | #57,175 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 21 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 20 | #120,190 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 7 | #22,158 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 6 | #30,678 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 5 | #42,347 |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Milai?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /milai/; in Portuguese /milaj/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Milai a male or female name?
- Milai is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Milai have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 69 people named Milai in Portugal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled milai.
- How common is the name Milai?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 21 people named Milai in 2022, about 1 in 10 million residents.
What do you want to know about Milai?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/milaiThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Milai”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.