Milah
Milah was given to 122 girls in 2025, #1,689 among girls’ names; 2,881 Americans have been recorded with it since 1997 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,860 Americans named Milah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 5 and 12.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Milah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Milah?
#1,689 among girls’ names, 2025
Milah fell from #1,188 in 2015 to #1,689 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.12 to 0.08 per 1,000.
236 babies in 2018, the peak
Milah peaked in 2018, when 236 girls were given it, #1,077 among girls’ names. The 122 births of 2025 are 52% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 122 | #1,689 | 0.08 |
| 2024 | 143 | #1,518 | 0.09 |
| 2023 | 148 | #1,480 | 0.09 |
| 2022 | 172 | #1,359 | 0.10 |
| 2021 | 208 | #1,178 | 0.13 |
| 2020 | 200 | #1,168 | 0.12 |
| 2019 | 203 | #1,174 | 0.12 |
| 2018 | 236 | #1,077 | 0.14 |
| 2017 | 228 | #1,107 | 0.13 |
| 2016 | 201 | #1,225 | 0.11 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 213 | #1,188 | 0.12 |
| 2014 | 178 | #1,332 | 0.10 |
| 2013 | 155 | #1,449 | 0.09 |
| 2012 | 136 | #1,599 | 0.08 |
| 2011 | 81 | #2,317 | 0.05 |
| 2010 | 49 | #3,348 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 44 | #3,659 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 37 | #4,245 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 21 | #6,477 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 21 | #6,282 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 14 | #8,196 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 16 | #7,285 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 6 | #15,145 | under 0.01 |
| 2002 | 11 | #9,267 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 5 | #17,076 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 15 | #7,036 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,375 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,665 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Milah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Milah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 28 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Milah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Milah, and how old are they?
2,860 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,881 Americans ever recorded as Milah. The median Milah alive today is 9 years old; half are between 5 and 12.
The 2020 Census counted 1,604 people named Milah (1,590 women and girls, 14 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,926 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 470 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,390 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Milah born?
The states with the most babies named Milah are California, Texas and Florida, with 50% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 19 | #1,303 | 1.4× |
| Texas | 9 | #2,333 | 1.0× |
| Florida | 9 | #1,511 | 1.1× |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,492 | 0.3× |
| Kentucky | 6 | #721 | 0.3× |
| New York | 5 | #2,310 | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,629 | 1.0× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,542 | 0.8× |
| Arizona | 5 | #1,168 | 1.0× |
| Idaho | 5 | #459 | 0.3× |
Where Milah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Milah is most over-represented in California: since 1997 it was given 1.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Milah with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Milah?
Milah is a less common spelling of Mila: SSA has recorded 2,881 Milah and 84,577 Mila since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 137,903 babies since 1880, Milah is the sixth most given (2.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 122 of their 7,913 babies (1.5%), the fifth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Milah
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Milah and names like it
- Compare Milah and MilaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sMilah peaked in 2018.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Milah since 1910.
- The top names of 2018The year the most babies were named Milah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Milah alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.