Milinda
Milinda was last recorded in 2024, when 5 babies were given it; 1,033 Americans have been recorded with it between 1945 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Milinda by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Milinda mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Milinda is “a male given name from Sanskrit used in India.”
Borrowed from Sanskrit मिलिंद (miliṃda).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Milinda?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,899, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
37 babies in 1972, the peak
Milinda peaked in 1972, when 37 girls were given it, #2,118 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 5 | #16,899 | 3.1 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,836 | 4.9 |
| 2019 | 5 | #17,225 | 3.0 |
| 2018 | 5 | #17,364 | 2.9 |
| 2017 | 7 | #13,651 | 4.1 |
| 2016 | 9 | #11,488 | 5.1 |
| 2015 | 6 | #15,787 | 3.4 |
| 2014 | 5 | #18,369 | 2.8 |
| 2013 | 5 | #18,400 | 2.8 |
| 2012 | 6 | #16,244 | 3.4 |
Every recorded year (74)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 9 | #11,851 | 5.1 |
| 2010 | 10 | #10,984 | 5.6 |
| 2009 | 5 | #19,266 | 2.7 |
| 2008 | 10 | #11,332 | 5.3 |
| 2007 | 7 | #14,959 | 3.6 |
| 2006 | 5 | #19,103 | 2.6 |
| 2004 | 9 | #11,320 | 4.9 |
| 2003 | 9 | #11,012 | 4.9 |
| 2002 | 5 | #17,247 | 2.8 |
| 2001 | 13 | #8,041 | 7.2 |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,449 | 5.0 |
| 1999 | 14 | #7,106 | 7.9 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,836 | 5.1 |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,312 | 5.1 |
| 1995 | 8 | #10,185 | 4.5 |
| 1994 | 8 | #10,198 | 4.5 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,880 | 3.3 |
| 1992 | 8 | #10,124 | 4.3 |
| 1991 | 7 | #11,068 | 3.7 |
| 1990 | 10 | #8,292 | 5.3 |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,334 | 4.3 |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,534 | 6.7 |
| 1987 | 19 | #4,415 | 10.9 |
| 1986 | 21 | #3,973 | 12.2 |
| 1985 | 15 | #5,004 | 8.7 |
| 1984 | 11 | #6,152 | 6.5 |
| 1983 | 22 | #3,633 | 13.2 |
| 1982 | 14 | #5,110 | 8.3 |
| 1981 | 17 | #4,465 | 10.2 |
| 1980 | 18 | #4,248 | 10.8 |
| 1979 | 29 | #2,970 | 18.1 |
| 1978 | 24 | #3,251 | 15.7 |
| 1977 | 20 | #3,709 | 13.0 |
| 1976 | 17 | #3,904 | 11.6 |
| 1975 | 32 | #2,492 | 21.9 |
| 1974 | 27 | #2,733 | 18.4 |
| 1973 | 22 | #3,083 | 15.1 |
| 1972 | 37 | #2,118 | 24.3 |
| 1971 | 19 | #3,457 | 11.4 |
| 1970 | 29 | #2,559 | 16.6 |
| 1969 | 23 | #2,814 | 13.6 |
| 1968 | 24 | #2,600 | 14.6 |
| 1967 | 17 | #3,169 | 10.3 |
| 1966 | 15 | #3,355 | 8.9 |
| 1965 | 29 | #2,232 | 16.4 |
| 1964 | 26 | #2,452 | 13.7 |
| 1963 | 14 | #3,576 | 7.3 |
| 1962 | 24 | #2,509 | 12.2 |
| 1961 | 33 | #2,058 | 16.3 |
| 1960 | 10 | #4,370 | 4.9 |
| 1959 | 23 | #2,441 | 11.4 |
| 1958 | 14 | #3,334 | 7.0 |
| 1957 | 18 | #2,794 | 8.8 |
| 1956 | 15 | #3,136 | 7.5 |
| 1955 | 18 | #2,692 | 9.2 |
| 1954 | 11 | #3,634 | 5.7 |
| 1953 | 14 | #3,050 | 7.4 |
| 1952 | 13 | #3,142 | 7.0 |
| 1951 | 11 | #3,421 | 6.1 |
| 1950 | 11 | #3,362 | 6.4 |
| 1949 | 9 | #3,806 | 5.3 |
| 1947 | 7 | #4,639 | 3.9 |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,462 | 3.2 |
| 1945 | 5 | #5,032 | 3.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Milinda a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Milinda 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 Milinda: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Milinda, and how old are they?
An estimated 942 Americans named Milinda and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (91% of everyone recorded); the median is 51 years old and half are between 37 and 61. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 824 people named Milinda (806 women and girls, 18 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 956 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 1,910 babies since 1880, Milinda is the most given (54% of them).
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 Milinda
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 Milinda and names like it
- Compare Milinda and MylindaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sMilinda peaked in 1972.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Milinda since 1910.
- Sanskrit namesWiktionary’s origin for Milinda: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1972The year the most babies were named Milinda.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Milinda alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with MMost given first.