Milena
Milena was given to 271 girls in 2025, #950 among girls’ names; 7,749 Americans have been recorded with it since 1918 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 7,630 Americans named Milena and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 6 and 19.
Milena dropped 165 places in 2025, the #24 drop among the girls’ top 1,000 of 2024.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Milena by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Milena mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Milena is “a female given name from the Slavic languages, masculine equivalent Milan.” Its etymology gives the sense “dear, kind” (*mìlъ).
From Slavic, ultimately from Proto-Slavic *mìlъ (“dear, kind”).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Milena?
#950 among girls’ names, 2025
Milena fell from #758 in 2015 to #950 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.21 to 0.17 per 1,000.
428 babies in 2019, the peak
Milena peaked in 2019, when 428 girls were given it, #678 among girls’ names. The 271 births of 2025 are 63% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 271 | #950 | 0.17 |
| 2024 | 359 | #785 | 0.22 |
| 2023 | 410 | #701 | 0.26 |
| 2022 | 368 | #773 | 0.22 |
| 2021 | 345 | #810 | 0.21 |
| 2020 | 330 | #829 | 0.20 |
| 2019 | 428 | #678 | 0.26 |
| 2018 | 338 | #806 | 0.20 |
| 2017 | 325 | #837 | 0.19 |
| 2016 | 407 | #704 | 0.23 |
Every recorded year (74)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 372 | #758 | 0.21 |
| 2014 | 353 | #797 | 0.20 |
| 2013 | 311 | #843 | 0.18 |
| 2012 | 262 | #971 | 0.15 |
| 2011 | 230 | #1,074 | 0.13 |
| 2010 | 192 | #1,251 | 0.11 |
| 2009 | 185 | #1,312 | 0.10 |
| 2008 | 156 | #1,502 | 0.08 |
| 2007 | 187 | #1,307 | 0.10 |
| 2006 | 151 | #1,472 | 0.08 |
| 2005 | 124 | #1,628 | 0.07 |
| 2004 | 123 | #1,598 | 0.07 |
| 2003 | 101 | #1,838 | 0.06 |
| 2002 | 90 | #1,959 | 0.05 |
| 2001 | 122 | #1,530 | 0.07 |
| 2000 | 112 | #1,584 | 0.06 |
| 1999 | 65 | #2,295 | 0.04 |
| 1998 | 64 | #2,230 | 0.04 |
| 1997 | 47 | #2,682 | 0.03 |
| 1996 | 49 | #2,577 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 44 | #2,764 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 44 | #2,780 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 42 | #2,861 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 38 | #3,069 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 39 | #2,966 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 25 | #4,074 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 18 | #4,981 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 26 | #3,650 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 21 | #4,077 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 23 | #3,722 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 30 | #3,057 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 22 | #3,680 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 23 | #3,503 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 35 | #2,680 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 20 | #3,952 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 21 | #3,800 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 22 | #3,623 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 16 | #4,387 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 25 | #3,136 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 24 | #3,060 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 18 | #3,719 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 22 | #3,178 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 29 | #2,544 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 35 | #2,206 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 23 | #3,029 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 17 | #3,668 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 17 | #3,413 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 12 | #4,149 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 14 | #3,597 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 8 | #5,136 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 11 | #4,119 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 13 | #3,826 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 10 | #4,446 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 9 | #4,664 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,902 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,719 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 7 | #5,223 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,748 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 7 | #4,999 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 6 | #5,348 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 16 | #2,601 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 10 | #3,371 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,859 | under 0.01 |
| 1918 | 5 | #5,347 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Milena a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Milena has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 74 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Milena: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Milena, and how old are they?
7,630 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 7,749 Americans ever recorded as Milena. The median Milena alive today is 11 years old; half are between 6 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 8,922 people named Milena (8,907 women and girls, 15 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,665 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 75 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 293 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 486 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,190 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 4,590 |
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 Milena born?
The states with the most babies named Milena are California, Texas and Florida, with 44% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 40 | #774 | 1.2× |
| Texas | 31 | #940 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 30 | #592 | 1.4× |
| Illinois | 15 | #652 | 1.3× |
| New York | 14 | #1,070 | 1.2× |
| New Jersey | 11 | #698 | 1.3× |
| Washington | 10 | #661 | 0.6× |
| Massachusetts | 9 | #604 | 1.3× |
| Michigan | 9 | #840 | 0.6× |
| North Carolina | 9 | #1,032 | 0.5× |
Where Milena is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Milena is most over-represented in Florida: since 1918 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 Milena with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 34,166 babies since 1880, Milena is the second most given (23% of them). In 2025 it was given to 271 of their 1,977 babies (14%), the third 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 Milena
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 Milena and names like it
- Compare Milena and MilaniBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sMilena peaked in 2019.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Milena since 1910.
- The top names of 2019The year the most babies were named Milena.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Milena alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.