girl's name

Milana

  • Gender Girl
  • Letters 6
  • Popularity Top 1000 (US)
  • Births on record 11,139

the United States

#813

2025 births

Milana is a girl's name. In 2025 it was given to 336 babies in the United States, ranking #813. It is a well-established, commonly used name.

  • Peaked in 2015, when 421 babies were given the name.
  • It has been rising over the past decade.
  • Today about 1 in 9,867 babies in the United States is given this name.
  • First appears in US birth records in 1947.

Milana over time

Births per decade in the United States, 1940s to 2020s. The striped bar is the 2020s, still in progress — it covers 2020 to 2025, not a full ten years.

3,349
'40 '50 '60 '70 '80 '90 '00 '10 '20
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Births named Milana by decade in the United States
Decade Births
1940s 6
1950s 45
1960s 42
1970s 22
1980s 54
1990s 199
2000s 1,116
2010s 3,349
2020s (to 2025) 2,194

How popular is Milana?

In 2025, Milana was given to 336 babies in the United States, ranking #813 that year. It is a well-established, commonly used name.

Where Milana is used

Canada #447 67 in 2024
Northern Ireland #503 3 in 2024
Ireland #538 7 in 2025
England & Wales #572 70 in 2025
France #588 75 in 2025
Scotland #629 5 in 2024
United States #813 336 in 2025

The bar shows how near the top of each country's list the name sits, on a scale where #1 fills the row and #1,000 is a sliver. The figures beside it are the real rank and the babies recorded that year.

US figures omit any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so the rarest names are absent from the source rather than absent from use. Data & sources.

Names that peaked alongside Milana

These names rose and fell in the same era, which is why they tend to sound like they belong together.

Parents who like Milana also like

Names whose popularity has risen and fallen in step with Milana over the last century — the same taste, a different name.

Milana in other languages

The same name as it is spelled elsewhere — not shortenings, and not different names that merely sound alike. Each one has its own record here.

Belarusian
Milena
Bulgarian
Milena
Czech
Milena
Italian
Milena
Kazakh
Milena
Polish
Milena
Russian
Milena
Slovene
Milena
Ukrainian
Milena
Other forms
Forms we hold no single language for — some are used across several, some are simply spelled differently.
Milania Miliana

Sibling names for Milana

Names from the same era that won't rhyme or share an initial with Milana — the two things that make a sibling set grate.

Common questions about Milana

How popular is the name Milana?

In 2025, Milana was given to 336 babies in the United States, ranking #813 that year. It is a well-established, commonly used name.

Is Milana a girl's or a boy's name?

Milana is given almost entirely to girls in birth records.

When was Milana most popular?

Milana peaked in 2015, when 421 babies were given the name. It has been rising over the past decade.

Is Milana a good name?

That is not something records can settle, but they can tell you what you would be choosing. Milana currently ranks #447 in the United States. It has been rising over the past decade. Everything else — how it sounds with your surname, who it reminds you of — is yours.