Milen
given name · Latin script
Meaning: from Slavic mil- 'dear' with suffix -en
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Milen is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bulgaria than in any other country, where it is the 67th most common given name.
- BGBulgaria≈1 in 874(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 672K
- RSSerbia≈1 in 12K
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 Milen 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.
- Bulgaria (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 135 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 874 (inferred from the name graph)
≈8,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Bulgaria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Милен in RU Russia.
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 Slavic mil- 'dear' with suffix -en
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Milen 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BG Bulgaria | #67 | ≈8,000 est. | ≈1 in 874 | — | Milen | 135 |
| RS Serbia | #738 | ≈580 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Milen | 14 |
| US United States | — | 495 | 1 in 672K | 4.7K | Milen | 124 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 659K | — | Milen | 23 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 535K | — | Милен | 29 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈93 est. | ≈1 in 126K | 78 | Milen | 6 |
| SE Sweden | — | 80 | 1 in 128K | 80 | — | 10 |
| AM Armenia | — | ≈32 est. | ≈1 in 94K | — | Milen | 10 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population 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)
Milen 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 Norwegian Bokmål, definite masculine singular of mil
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)
- Milen Nachevb. 1957BGBulgarian musician
- Milen Ruskovb. 1966BGBulgarian writer
- Milen Veltchevb. 1966BGBulgarian politician
- Milen Ivantchev Vassilevb. 1968BGBulgarian sculptor
- Milen Georgievb. 1974BGBulgarian association football player
- Milen Ivanovb. 1975BGBulgarian musician
- Milen Kostovb. 1989BGBulgarian basketball player (born 1989)
- Milen Zhelevb. 1992BGBulgarian footballer
- Milen Gamakovb. 1994BGBulgarian footballer
- Milen MarinovNZNew Zealand entomologist
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 55 sources across 28 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 328 | #20,756 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 167 | #20,756 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 80 | #9,886 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 42 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2024 | 9 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2018 | 5 | — |
Reference works 4
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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
- 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
- What does the name Milen mean, and where does it come from?
- from Slavic mil- 'dear' with suffix -en Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- Is Milen a male or female name?
- Milen is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- What are other forms of the name Milen?
- In the etymology graph, Miloš, Miloslav and Miłosz are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Milen have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8.0 thousand people named Milen in Bulgaria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled milen.
- How common is the name Milen?
- In the United States, the national register counted 495 people named Milen in 2020, about 1 in 672 thousand residents.
- How common is Milen compared with other names?
- In Bulgaria, Milen is the 67th most common given name of 22,906 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/milenThe 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, “Milen” — the 67th most common given name in Bulgaria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.