Milisa
Milisa was last recorded in 1995, when 7 babies were given it; 312 Americans have been recorded with it between 1961 and 1995 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Milisa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Milisa?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #11,328, in 1995; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
23 babies in 1972, the peak
Milisa peaked in 1972, when 23 girls were given it, #2,956 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 7 | #11,328 | 4.0 |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,980 | 3.7 |
| 1985 | 6 | #10,183 | 3.5 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,922 | 3.6 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,655 | 4.2 |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,947 | 4.7 |
| 1981 | 11 | #6,170 | 6.6 |
| 1980 | 12 | #5,778 | 7.2 |
| 1979 | 9 | #7,101 | 5.6 |
| 1978 | 17 | #4,187 | 11.1 |
Every recorded year (25)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1977 | 17 | #4,174 | 11.1 |
| 1976 | 17 | #3,905 | 11.6 |
| 1975 | 17 | #3,880 | 11.7 |
| 1974 | 14 | #4,370 | 9.5 |
| 1973 | 19 | #3,423 | 13.0 |
| 1972 | 23 | #2,956 | 15.1 |
| 1971 | 21 | #3,230 | 12.6 |
| 1970 | 16 | #3,818 | 9.2 |
| 1969 | 17 | #3,414 | 10.1 |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,477 | 4.9 |
| 1967 | 16 | #3,283 | 9.7 |
| 1966 | 10 | #4,386 | 5.9 |
| 1965 | 11 | #4,120 | 6.2 |
| 1964 | 11 | #4,267 | 5.8 |
| 1961 | 5 | #7,221 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Milisa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Milisa has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 25 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Milisa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Milisa, and how old are they?
An estimated 291 Americans named Milisa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 52 years old and half are between 48 and 56. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 371 people named Milisa (371 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 297 born in the U.S. The Census count is 25% above 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.
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
Milisa is a less common spelling of Milissa: SSA has recorded 312 Milisa and 3,003 Milissa since 1880.
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. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Milisa
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.