Milena
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Milena is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In Colombia it is the 39th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Milena är ett slaviskt namn, bildat till ett ord (mil) med betydelsen ’kär’ och ändelsen -ena, eller en femininform till → Milan med samma betydelse.
- COColombia≈1 in 884(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil1 in 1.1K
- RSSerbia≈1 in 194
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 Milena 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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 269 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 194 (inferred from the name graph)
199,909 people, 2022
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Serbia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Milena är ett slaviskt namn, bildat till ett ord (mil) med betydelsen ’kär’ och ändelsen -ena, eller en femininform till → Milan med samma betydelse. De tidigaste svenska beläggen kan ha en annan bakgrund.
Sources 1
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Milena 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #315 | 199,909 | 1 in 1.1K | 200K | Milena | 181 |
| PL Poland | — | 78,513 | 1 in 488 | 79K | — | 1 |
| CO Colombia | #39 | ≈56,000 est. | ≈1 in 884 | — | Milena | 166 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 48,102 | 1 in 222 | 48K | — | — |
| RS Serbia | #384 | ≈36,000 est. | ≈1 in 194 | listed | Milena | 29 |
| BG Bulgaria | — | 22,946as Милена | 1 in 304 | 23K | — | 3 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 7,326 | 1 in 287 | 7.3K | — | 10 |
199,909 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); MVČR — living population register 2017; NSI — most common given names (population); 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)
Milena 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.
In French, Variante slave de Mylène, généralement rattachée à l’idée de « chère, aimée » (racine slavonne mil-).
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In English, Czech: the Favoured One
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
In German, ) Milena: um 1930 aus dem Tschechischen übernommener wdbl.
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Graziosa
as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
In Catalan, feminine singular of milè
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Milena Vukotićb. 1847MEQueen consort of Montenegro
- Milena Jesenskáb. 1896CZCzech journalist, writer, editor and translator (1896-1944)
- Milena Pavlović-Barilib. 1909RSSerbian artist and poet (1909-1945)
- Milena Vukoticb. 1935ITItalian actress (born 1935)
- Milena Dravićb. 1940RSSerbian actress (1940-2018)
- Milena Canonerob. 1949ITItalian costume designer
- Milena Miconib. 1971ITItalian actress and model
- Milena Govichb. 1976USAmerican actress, director, singer, dancer
- Milena Markovnab. 1983USAmerican actress (born 1983)
- Milena Smitb. 1996ESSpanish actress
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 99 sources across 50 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 200K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 199K | #163 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 159K | #316 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 79K | #74 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 79K | #74 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 48K | #93 |
| CZ Czechia | naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot | — | 24K | #104 |
| BG Bulgaria | NSI — most common given names (population) | 2018 | 23K | #20 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 16K | — |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2025 | 7.3K | #25 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 7.2K | #59 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 990 | #163 |
Reference works 4
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- 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
- Is Milena a male or female name?
- Milena 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 are other forms of the name Milena?
- In the etymology graph, Mila, Milka and Milica are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Milena have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 200 thousand people named Milena, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled milena.
- How common is the name Milena?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 199,909 people named Milena in 2022, about 1 in 1.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Milena compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Milena is the 315th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
- What does the name Milena mean?
- Recorded meaning: Milena är ett slaviskt namn, bildat till ett ord (mil) med betydelsen ’kär’ och ändelsen -ena, eller en femininform till → Milan med samma betydelse.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/milenaThe 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, “Milena” — the 315th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.