Milica
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Milica är ett främst sydslaviskt namn där namnelementet mil ’kär, dyrbar’ (se → Milan och → Milena) har kombinerats med en diminutivändelse
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Milica is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Serbia than in any other country, where it is the 9th most common given name.
- RSSerbia≈1 in 97(inferred from the name graph)
- HRCroatia1 in 429
- BABosnia & Herzegovina≈1 in 451
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 Milica 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.
- Serbia (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 163 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 97 (inferred from the name graph)
≈73,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Serbia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Милица in MK North Macedonia.
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)
Milica är ett främst sydslaviskt namn där namnelementet mil ’kär, dyrbar’ (se → Milan och → Milena) har kombinerats med en diminutivändelse. Det kan också vara en smekform till → Emilia.
Sources 1
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Milica 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RS Serbia | #9 | ≈73,000 est. | ≈1 in 97 | listed | Milica | 110 |
| HR Croatia | #68 | 9,852 | 1 in 429 | 9.9K | Milica | 54 |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | #72 | ≈8,500 est. | ≈1 in 451 | — | Milica | 26 |
| MK North Macedonia | #203 | 3,206as Милица | 1 in 663 | 3.2K | Милица | 14 |
| SI Slovenia | #518 | 1,542 | 1 in 1.4K | 1.6K | Milica | 12 |
| ME Montenegro | #4 | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 565 | #2 | Milica | 35 |
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: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); State Statistical Office — living population names; SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); the me-monstat-census-ranked register. 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)
Milica is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latvian, Sievietes vārds
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Milica Hrebeljanovićb. 1335RSpoet (1335-1405)
- Mina Karadžićb. 1828ATnot in their usual nameSerbian historian and painter (1828-1894)
- Milica Stojadinović-Srpkinjab. 1828RSSerbian poet (1830–1878)
- Princess Milica of Montenegrob. 1866MEMontenegrin princess and Grand Duchess of Russia (1866-1951)
- Duchess Jutta of Mecklenburg-Strelitzb. 1880DEnot in their usual nameGerman duchess (1880–1946)
- Mir-Jamb. 1887RSnot in their usual nameSerbian writer (1887-1952)
- Milla Jovovichb. 1975UAnot in their usual nameAmerican actress (born 1975)
- Milica Dabovićb. 1982MESerbian basketball player
- Milica Jovanovicb. 1983DEGerman stage actor and singer
- Milica Mandićb. 1991RSSerbian taekwondo practitioner
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 54 sources across 30 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 9.9K | #106 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 6.9K | — |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 1.6K | #298 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2025 | 1.5K | #164 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2024 | 1.5K | #166 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2023 | 1.5K | #164 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — Najpogostejša imena in priimki (population register) | 2024 | 14 | — |
| ME Montenegro | MONSTAT — census names by municipality | 2023 | — | #1 |
| ME Montenegro | MONSTAT — census names | 2016 | — | #6 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
- In which country does Milica have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 73 thousand people named Milica in Serbia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled milica.
- What does the name Milica mean?
- Recorded meaning: Milica är ett främst sydslaviskt namn där namnelementet mil ’kär, dyrbar’ (se → Milan och → Milena) har kombinerats med en diminutivändelse.
- How common is the name Milica?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 9,852 people named Milica in 2021, about 1 in 429 residents.
- How common is Milica compared with other names?
- In Serbia, Milica is the 9th most common given name of 10,960 given names recorded there.
- Is Milica a male or female name?
- Milica 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 Milica?
- In the etymology graph, Milena, Mila and Milka are forms of the same name in other languages.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/milicaThe 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, “Milica” — the 9th most common given name in Serbia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.