Milla
Milla was given to 39 girls in 2025, #3,816 among girls’ names; 2,136 Americans have been recorded with it since 1892 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,060 Americans named Milla and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 11 and 20.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Milla by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Milla mean?
Wiktionary, Finnish section
Milla is “a female given name”
Shortened from Emilia, Swedish Camilla and Russian Людми́ла (Ljudmíla).
/ˈmilːɑ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Finnish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Milla?
#3,816 among girls’ names, 2025
Milla fell from #2,309 in 2015 to #3,816 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 45.4 to 24.3 per million.
144 babies in 2011, the peak
Milla peaked in 2011, when 144 girls were given it, #1,530 among girls’ names. The 39 births of 2025 are 27% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 39 | #3,816 | 24.3 |
| 2024 | 34 | #4,265 | 21.0 |
| 2023 | 36 | #4,099 | 22.4 |
| 2022 | 35 | #4,171 | 21.3 |
| 2021 | 58 | #2,912 | 35.3 |
| 2020 | 58 | #2,845 | 35.9 |
| 2019 | 46 | #3,430 | 27.4 |
| 2018 | 51 | #3,190 | 30.0 |
| 2017 | 67 | #2,626 | 38.8 |
| 2016 | 55 | #3,047 | 31.0 |
Every recorded year (44)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 81 | #2,309 | 45.4 |
| 2014 | 95 | #2,066 | 53.2 |
| 2013 | 106 | #1,896 | 60.4 |
| 2012 | 135 | #1,607 | 76.7 |
| 2011 | 144 | #1,530 | 81.9 |
| 2010 | 128 | #1,666 | 72.0 |
| 2009 | 125 | #1,751 | 68.0 |
| 2008 | 138 | #1,640 | 73.0 |
| 2007 | 100 | #2,051 | 52.0 |
| 2006 | 117 | #1,784 | 61.5 |
| 2005 | 93 | #2,026 | 50.3 |
| 2004 | 69 | #2,464 | 37.6 |
| 2003 | 44 | #3,326 | 24.1 |
| 2002 | 56 | #2,730 | 31.2 |
| 2001 | 28 | #4,404 | 15.6 |
| 2000 | 37 | #3,565 | 20.4 |
| 1999 | 32 | #3,766 | 18.0 |
| 1998 | 23 | #4,746 | 13.0 |
| 1997 | 19 | #5,343 | 10.9 |
| 1996 | 5 | #15,043 | 2.9 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,720 | 2.5 |
| 1951 | 6 | #5,235 | 3.3 |
| 1948 | 7 | #4,499 | 4.1 |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,463 | 3.2 |
| 1942 | 5 | #5,139 | 3.7 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,664 | 5.0 |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,773 | 4.7 |
| 1929 | 7 | #3,930 | 6.3 |
| 1926 | 5 | #5,380 | 4.2 |
| 1925 | 9 | #3,570 | 7.4 |
| 1922 | 5 | #5,538 | 4.2 |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,628 | 5.3 |
| 1914 | 6 | #3,485 | 7.9 |
| 1892 | 6 | #1,401 | 28.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Milla a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Milla has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 44 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Milla: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Milla, and how old are they?
2,060 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 2,136 Americans ever recorded as Milla. The median Milla alive today is 15 years old; half are between 11 and 20.
The 2020 Census counted 2,094 people named Milla (2,077 women and girls, 17 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,824 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 4 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 16 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 5 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,280 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 756 |
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 Milla born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 6 | #3,185 | 1.0× |
| California | 5 | #3,386 | 1.4× |
Where Milla is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Milla is most over-represented in California: since 1910 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 Milla 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 177,483 babies since 1880, Milla is the seventh most given (1.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 39 of their 10,774 babies (<1%), again the seventh 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 Milla
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 Milla and names like it
- Compare Milla and MilaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sMilla peaked in 2011.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Milla since 1910.
- Finnish namesWiktionary’s origin for Milla: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Milla.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Milla alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.