Mila
Mila holds the #43 spot in the 2025 national count, with the crowd thinning around it. An old entry (1881) having its biggest moment now, with 84,489 American bearers across the record.
What Mila carries
Mila · Slavonic
“lovely”
Source: Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), see our sources.
Mila’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Mila, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Mila since 1881
Mila peaked in 2018 at #14; #43 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Mila is most common
The state that gives Mila most often, per girls born there, is Rhode Island (1.06% in 2025); Wyoming and Alaska are close behind.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Mila
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Miles
#44 in 2025 · Greek
Mason
#39 in 2025
Millie
#73 in 2025
Maeve
#76 in 2025
Micah
#90 in 2025 · Hebrew
Myles
#100 in 2025 · Greek
Margot
#102 in 2025 · Greek
Milo
#119 in 2025 · Greek
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About Mila
How common is Mila today?
Mila holds the #43 spot in the 2025 national count, with the crowd thinning around it. The chart above draws the whole run since 1881, from the Social Security Administration's public data.
What is the recorded meaning of Mila?
The gloss on record reads “lovely”, of Slavonic origin (Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884)).
Which names sit near Mila?
The recipe puts Miles first, then Millie, on shared origin, a peak within fifteen years, matching syllables and a shared first letter. Run the sibling matcher with your own names for a list scored against them.
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