Mileva
given name · Latin script
Meaning: from Slavic mil- 'dear' with suffix -eva
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mi˨˦leʋa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mileva is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Serbia than in any other country.
- HRCroatia1 in 3K(measured from records)
- RSSerbia≈1 in 3.9K
- BGBulgaria≈1 in 21K
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 Mileva 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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 79 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,800 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Милева in BG Bulgaria, 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 Slavic mil- 'dear' with suffix -eva
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mileva 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 | #309 | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 3.9K | listed | Mileva | 27 |
| HR Croatia | #325 | 1,394 | 1 in 3K | 1.4K | Mileva | 16 |
| MK North Macedonia | — | 531as Милева | 1 in 4K | 531 | Милева | 7 |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | #973 | ≈530 est. | ≈1 in 7.2K | — | Mileva | 4 |
| BG Bulgaria | — | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Милева | 79 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 156 | 1 in 13K | 156 | Mileva | 5 |
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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Mileva Marićb. 1875RSSerbian mathematician and wife of Albert Einstein (1875–1948)
- Mileva Zakrajšekb. 1885SIactor
- Mileva Rollerb. 1886ATAustrian painter (1886-1949)
- Mileva Ukmarb. 1906IT(1906-1971)
- Mileva Prvanovićb. 1929RSSerbian mathematician (1929-2016)
- Mileva Filipovićb. 1938MEMontenegring feminist sociologist and politologist
- Mileva Žižićb. 1938RSSerbian economist (1938-2009)
- Mileva Gorgievab. 1963MKpolitician from North Macedonia
- Mileva SmiljanićBAYU judoka
- Mileva VasićBABosnia and Herzegovina judoka
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 41 sources across 26 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 9 | #20,688 |
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
- What does the name Mileva mean, and where does it come from?
- from Slavic mil- 'dear' with suffix -eva Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- What are other forms of the name Mileva?
- In the etymology graph, Milena, Mila and Milka are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Mileva?
- A machine transcription gives /mi˨˦leʋa/ (IPA) for Croatian.
- Is Mileva a male or female name?
- Mileva 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.
- In which country does Mileva have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.8 thousand people named Mileva in Serbia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mileva.
- Where is Mileva most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mileva is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 3.0 thousand people — even though Serbia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Mileva?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 1,394 people named Mileva in 2021, about 1 in 3.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Mileva compared with other names?
- In Serbia, Mileva is the 309th most common given name of 10,960 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/milevaThe 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, “Mileva” — the 309th most common given name in Serbia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.