Mila
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Mila is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In the United Arab Emirates it is the 28th most common given name. In English, recorded as A female given name from the Slavic languages.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 2.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 7K
- HRCroatia1 in 295as Mira
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Mila itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- #753 (measured from records)
- 8 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 354 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.5K (inferred from the name graph)
47,530 people, 2020
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Mira in US United States, HR Croatia, FI Finland and 2 more, 미라 in KR South Korea and Meera in AE United Arab Emirates.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A female given name from the Slavic languages.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
How Mila is read(measured from records)
Mila is one spelling over 6 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English25%
A female given name from the Slavic languages.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish18%
clipping of milanesa
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French12%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Mila in French.
- Indonesian8.9%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Mila in Indonesian.
- Hindi6.3%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Mila in Hindi.
- Serbo-Croatian5.3%
inflection of mio:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mila 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 47,530 | 1 in 7K | 57K | Mira | 354 |
| PH Philippines | #793 | ≈45,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | 25K | Mila | 77 |
| KR South Korea | #230 | ≈36,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | 미라 | 75 |
| HR Croatia | #73 | 14,354as Mira | 1 in 295 | 14K | Mira | 70 |
| EG Egypt | #623 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.2K | — | Mira | 71 |
| FI Finland | #404 | 10,238as Milla | 1 in 544 | 10K | Mira | 44 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #28 | ≈7,100 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Meera | 95 |
| MK North Macedonia | #597 | 4,147as Мила | 1 in 513 | 4.1K | Mira | 10 |
47,530 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling mila. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Top 500 First Names in the Philippines (PSA FOI response, tracking; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); State Statistical Office — living population names. 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)
Mila is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Russian, 1 (14) janvier. Emilie est son équivalent français. Fêtes : 19 septembre, 17 août. 143
as a nameRussian Names
In German, weibl. Vom., tschechische Kurzform (Mila) mehrerer weiblicher Vornamen, z. B.
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In Russian, 19 juillet (1 août).
as a nameRussian Names
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Mila Schönb. 1916ITfashion designer (1916–2008)
- Mila Parélyb. 1917FRactress (1917-2012)
- Mila Racineb. 1919FRFrench resistance fighter (1919–1945)
- Mila Ximénezb. 1952ESSpan (1952-2021)
- Mila Mulroneyb. 1953CAwife of the 18th Prime Minister of Canada, Brian Mulroney
- Mila Turajlićb. 1979RSSerbian filmmaker
- Mila Guyb. 1992ZASouth Africa actress
- Mila Azulb. 1997UAUkrainian erotic model
- Mila Syvatskab. 1998UAUkrainian actor
- Mila Lieub. 2012GBactress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 129 sources across 61 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 47K | #937 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 4.8K | — |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 4.3K | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 4.2K | #356 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 4K | — |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 3.3K | #274 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 216 | #937 |
Reference works 7
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- In which country does Mila have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 48 thousand people named Mila, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mira.
- Is Mila a male or female name?
- Mila is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Mila mean, and where does it come from?
- A female given name from the Slavic languages. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Mila?
- In the etymology graph, Milena, Milka and Milica are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Mila?
- In the United States, the national register counted 47,530 people named Mila in 2020, about 1 in 7.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Mila compared with other names?
- In the United Arab Emirates, Mila is the 28th most common given name of 31,430 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/milaThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Mila” — the 28th most common given name in United Arab Emirates. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.