Milan
loc · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Milan is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country. In Bosnia & Herzegovina it is the 49th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Slavic origin, from a name related to “brillante victoire” (bright victory).
- RSSerbia≈1 in 71(inferred from the name graph)
- BABosnia & Herzegovina≈1 in 503
- USUnited States1 in 19K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Czechia (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 389 (measured from records)
- 1 in 50 (inferred from the name graph)
214,916 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Милан in SI Slovenia, RS Serbia, BA Bosnia & Herzegovina and Milán in CZ Czechia.
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)
Slavic origin, from a name related to “brillante victoire” (bright victory).
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Milan 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | — | 214,916 | 1 in 50 | 215K | Milán | 176 |
| RS Serbia | #132 | ≈98,000 est. | ≈1 in 71 | listed | Милан | 131 |
| HU Hungary | — | 26,916 | 1 in 363 | 27K | Milan | 116 |
| HR Croatia | — | 24,038 | 1 in 176 | 24K | Milan | 110 |
| US United States | — | 17,228 | 1 in 19K | 11K | Milan | 389 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 10,363 | 1 in 203 | 10K | Милан | 54 |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | #49 | ≈7,600 est. | ≈1 in 503 | — | Милан | 36 |
214,916 people counted by MVČR — living population register 2017, counting the spelling milan. 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: MVČR — living population register 2017; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); SURS — resident population given 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)
Milan is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
from the Slavic personal name Milan, a derivative of names such as Bohumil and Miloslav, containing the element mil ‘grace’, ‘favor’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
nickname from mildn ‘kite’ (the bird of prey).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
habitational name from the Italian city of Milan (see Milano).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Swedish, Milan är ett slaviskt namn, bildat till ordet mil med betydelsen ’kär’ och ändelsen -an. I Sverige användes det också i slutet av 1800-talet, då kanske som en bildning till det vanliga → Emil.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In French, Le milan est une sorte de fromage à croûte rouge qui vient de la capitale de la Lombar die.
as a name2500 noms propres devenus communs : dictionnaire étymologique (éponymes, antonomases et hypallages)
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)
- Milan I Obrenovićb. 1854ROking of Serbia
- Milan Nedićb. 1878RSSerbian general and politician (1878-1946)
- Milan Kunderab. 1929CZFranco-Czechoslovak poet and novelist (1929—2023)
- Milan Babićb. 1956RSFirst President of the Republic of Serbian Krajina 1991–1992
- Milan Barošb. 1981CZCzech association football player
- Milan Jovanovićb. 1981RSSerbian association football player
- Olivier Schneiderb. 1982FRnot in their usual namepresident of the French Federation of Users of Bicycle (FUB)
- Milan Badeljb. 1989HRCroatian association football player
- Milan Mačvanb. 1989RSSerbian basketball player (born 1989)
- Milan Škriniarb. 1995SKSlovak association football player
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 126 sources across 57 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 215K | #21 |
| CZ Czechia | naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot | — | 107K | #23 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 24K | #23 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 17K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 11K | #1,752 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2025 | 10K | #14 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 10K | #23 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 6.3K | #5,543 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 6K | #1,752 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 5.9K | #5,707 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 5.3K | #5,960 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 1.4K | — |
Reference works 12
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname 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)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
- 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 Milan have the most bearers?
- In Czechia, the national register counted about 215 thousand people named Milan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled milán.
- Where is Milan most common?
- Milan is densest in Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 50 people carrying it.
- What does the name Milan mean, and where does it come from?
- Slavic origin, from a name related to “brillante victoire” (bright victory). Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- How common is the name Milan?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 214,916 people named Milan, about 1 in 50 residents.
- How common is Milan compared with other names?
- In Bosnia & Herzegovina, Milan is the 49th most common given name of 4,559 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/milanThe same 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), 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, “Milan” — the 49th most common given name in Bosnia & Herzegovina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.