Milanka

given name · Latin script

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

Milanka is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Serbia than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • RSSerbia≈1 in 1.3K(inferred from the name graph)
  • HRCroatia1 in 8K
  • BABosnia & Herzegovina≈1 in 5.8K

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 Milanka 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)

≈5,600 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
79 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 1.3K (inferred from the name graph)

Serbia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

MilankaLatin(measured from records)
МиланкаCyrillic(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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Milanka 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 Milanka is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RS Serbia#156≈5,600 est.≈1 in 1.3KlistedMilanka29
BA Bosnia & Herzegovina#491≈660 est.≈1 in 5.8K—Milanka14
HR Croatia#6895311 in 8K531Milanka20
RW Rwanda#837≈420 est.≈1 in 30K—Milanka1
BG Bulgaria—≈350 est.≈1 in 20K—Milanka19
MK North Macedonia—315as Миланка1 in 6.7K315Milanka4
SI Slovenia—2761 in 7.6K276Milanka6

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)

Milanka is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Slovak given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Slovakia, Serbia

    Languages: Slovak, Czech

    Also written Milanká, Milánka

  • Russian given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, Serbia

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Миланка

36 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

19501960197019801990Milanka Karić, b. 1957Milanka Opačić, b. 1968Milanka Brooks, b. 1983

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 29 sources across 19 countries.

Official registers attesting Milanka
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)2021531#740
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021)2021438—
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2021278#395
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2025276#423
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—276#848
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2022276#402
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2019276#390
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2018276#386
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2017276#381
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2023275#410
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2013275#369
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2024274#421

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

Is Milanka a male or female name?
Milanka 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 Milanka?
In the etymology graph, Milena, Mila and Milka are forms of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Milanka have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 5.6 thousand people named Milanka in Serbia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled milanka.
How common is the name Milanka?
In Croatia, the national register counted 531 people named Milanka in 2021, about 1 in 8.0 thousand residents.
How common is Milanka compared with other names?
In Serbia, Milanka is the 156th most common given name of 10,960 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, “Milanka” — the 156th most common given name in Serbia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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