Mileva
given name · Latin script
Meaning: from Slavic mil- 'dear' with suffix -eva
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 26 countries
/milěːʋa/(recorded in a dictionary) Croatian · from Wiktionary
Mileva is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country.
- HRCroatia1 in 3K(measured from records)
- RSSerbia≈1 in 7.6K
- SISlovenia1 in 13K
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. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Croatia (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 79 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.0K (inferred from the name graph)
1,394 people, 2021
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: 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
Cited for this meaning 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | #325 | 1,394 | 1 in 3K | 1.4K | Mileva | 16 |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | #973 | ≈940 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | — | Mileva | 4 |
| RS Serbia | #309 | ≈860 est. | ≈1 in 7.6K | listed | Mileva | 27 |
| MK North Macedonia | — | 531as Милева | 1 in 4K | 531 | Милева | 7 |
| BG Bulgaria | — | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Милева | 79 |
| ME Montenegro | #240 | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 5.1K | register #8 | Mileva | 6 |
1,394 people counted by DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form), 2021. 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. 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)41 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 26 countries.
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?
- In Croatian /milěːʋa/ (Wiktionary).
- Is Mileva a male or female name?
- Mileva is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Kosovo (ASK Kosovo), United States (Census Bureau, 2020) and Slovenia (SURS, 2025).
- In which country does Mileva have the most bearers?
- In Croatia, the national register counted about 1.4 thousand people named Mileva, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mileva.
- Where is Mileva most common?
- Mileva is densest in Croatia, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.0 thousand people carrying 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 Croatia, Mileva is the 325th most common given name of 14,066 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 325th most common given name in Croatia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.