Mili
Mili was given to 19 girls in 2025, #6,257 among girls’ names; 489 Americans have been recorded with it since 1977 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mili by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Mili?
#6,257 among girls’ names, 2025
Mili rose from #7,175 in 2015 to #6,257 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 9.5 to 11.8 per million.
26 babies in 2008, the peak
Mili peaked in 2008, when 26 girls were given it, #5,531 among girls’ names. The 19 births of 2025 are 73% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 19 | #6,257 | 11.8 |
| 2024 | 19 | #6,322 | 11.7 |
| 2023 | 26 | #5,082 | 16.2 |
| 2022 | 17 | #6,901 | 10.4 |
| 2021 | 10 | #10,079 | 6.1 |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,771 | 7.4 |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,593 | 8.9 |
| 2018 | 12 | #8,986 | 7.1 |
| 2017 | 17 | #7,001 | 9.8 |
| 2016 | 12 | #9,250 | 6.8 |
Every recorded year (39)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 17 | #7,175 | 9.5 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,687 | 5.6 |
| 2013 | 15 | #8,035 | 8.5 |
| 2012 | 23 | #5,837 | 13.1 |
| 2011 | 25 | #5,487 | 14.2 |
| 2010 | 14 | #8,580 | 7.9 |
| 2009 | 23 | #6,028 | 12.5 |
| 2008 | 26 | #5,531 | 13.7 |
| 2007 | 10 | #11,380 | 5.2 |
| 2006 | 15 | #8,116 | 7.9 |
| 2005 | 15 | #7,782 | 8.1 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,690 | 6.0 |
| 2003 | 10 | #10,187 | 5.5 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,802 | 5.0 |
| 2001 | 14 | #7,601 | 7.8 |
| 2000 | 13 | #7,879 | 7.2 |
| 1999 | 8 | #11,046 | 4.5 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,792 | 4.5 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,879 | 3.3 |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,722 | 2.7 |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,601 | 2.7 |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,978 | 3.7 |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,816 | 3.3 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,791 | 3.6 |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,853 | 4.1 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,506 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,896 | 3.6 |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,305 | 3.9 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,664 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Mili a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Mili has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 39 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Mili: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mili, and how old are they?
An estimated 483 Americans named Mili and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 8 and 23. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 909 people named Mili (871 women and girls, 38 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 385 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.4 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Mili rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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).
How common is the spelling Mili?
Mili is a less common spelling of Millie: SSA has recorded 489 Mili and 46,138 Millie since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 177,481 babies since 1880, Mili is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 19 of their 10,784 babies (<1%), again the eighth most given.
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 Mili
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 Mili and names like it
- Compare Mili and MillieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMili peaked in 2008.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mili since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Mili.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Mili alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.