Milha

loc · Latin script

Meaning: milha, Portuguese mile, a traditional unit of distance equivalent to about 1481.5, 1851.9, or 2057.6 m depending on the number of equatorial degrees per league

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

Milha is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Brazil.

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Brazil (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
17 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

milha, Portuguese mile, a traditional unit of distance equivalent to about 1481.5, 1851.9, or 2057.6 m depending on the number of equatorial degrees per league

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Milha counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Milha is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil—124Milha17
PL Poland—24——
AR Argentina—2—1
CL Chile—2—5
EC Ecuador—1——

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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024). 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)

Milha is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

20 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)

Milha is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, A traditional Portuguese unit of distance, equivalent to about 1481.5, 1851.9, or 2057.6 m depending on the league used.

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

  • In roa-opt, mile (customary unit derived from the Roman mile)

    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.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 12 sources across 7 countries.

Official registers attesting Milha
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—124#53,746
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202624—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—24#80,758
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202618—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—18#96,032

Reference works 2

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 Milha mean, and where does it come from?
milha, Portuguese mile, a traditional unit of distance equivalent to about 1481.5, 1851.9, or 2057.6 m depending on the number of equatorial degrees per league Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Milha have the most bearers?
Milha is most frequently recorded in Brazil, where it is most often spelled milha.

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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, “Milha”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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