Milka

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Milka is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Kenya than in any other country. In Croatia it is the 28th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Biblical Hebrew מלכה (milká).

rarermore common
  • HRCroatia1 in 265(measured from records)
  • RSSerbia≈1 in 1K
  • BGBulgaria≈1 in 1.9K

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 Milka 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.

Kenya (inferred from the name graph)

≈19,000 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
163 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 265 (inferred from the name graph)

Croatia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

MilkaLatin(measured from records)
МилкаCyrillic(measured from records)

Locally spelled Милка 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)

From Biblical Hebrew מלכה (milká).

Sources 2

Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Milka 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.

Where Milka is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
KE Kenya—≈19,000 est.≈1 in 2.8K—Milka16
HR Croatia#2815,9271 in 26516KMilka40
TZ Tanzania—≈7,000 est.≈1 in 8.4K—Milka13
RS Serbia#120≈7,000 est.≈1 in 1KlistedMilka35
BG Bulgaria#226≈3,700 est.≈1 in 1.9K—Milka64
MK North Macedonia#3712,313as Милка1 in 9192.3KМилка16
SI Slovenia#9901,2221 in 1.7K1.2KMilka9

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. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Milka is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Peru, Mexico, United States, Brazil

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Milkã, Mĭlka, Mîlkâ, Milķa, Mïlka

  • Swahili given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Kenya, Sweden, Tanzania, United States

    Also written Milkà

  • Finnish given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, United States, Sweden, India

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Mįlkä

  • Indonesian given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Peru, Malaysia, United States

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Mîlka

  • Hindi given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Spain, Serbia

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Mïlka

  • Czech given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, Slovakia, United States, United Kingdom

    Languages: Czech, Slovak

    Also written Mílka

52 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Milka is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Russian, "dear."

    as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)

  • In Finnish, Milcah.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Latvian, Misūri pieteka ASV un Kanādā (angļu val. "Milk"), garums - 1173 km, sākas Klinšu kalnos

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

  • In Latvian, apdzīvota vieta (skrajciems) Rēzeknes novada Mākoņkalna pagastā

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

  • In Latvian, Blēdis, krāpnieks; paviršs strādnieks, haltūrists; muļķis

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

  • In Latvian, liela auguma, neveikla sieviete

    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)

1850190019502000Milka Ternina, b. 1863Milka Badjura, b. 1902Milka Hartman, b. 1902Milka Ivić, b. 1923Milka Planinc, b. 1924Milka Babović, b. 1928Milka Zimková, b. 1951Milka Ahlroth, b. 1966Milka Chulina, b. 1974Milka Loff Fernandes, b. 1980

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 73 sources across 38 countries.

Official registers attesting Milka
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)202116K#57
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021)202110K—
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20251.2K#181
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—1.2K#347

Reference works 7

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

What does the name Milka mean, and where does it come from?
From Biblical Hebrew מלכה (milká). Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
What are other forms of the name Milka?
In the etymology graph, Milena, Mila and Milica are forms of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Milka have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 19 thousand people named Milka in Kenya, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled milka.
Where is Milka most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Milka is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 265 people — even though Kenya holds more of our records for it.
Is Milka a male or female name?
Milka 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.
How common is the name Milka?
In Croatia, the national register counted 15,927 people named Milka in 2021, about 1 in 265 residents.
How common is Milka compared with other names?
In Croatia, Milka is the 28th most common given name of 14,066 given names recorded there.

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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, “Milka” — the 28th most common given name in Croatia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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