Mila

given name · French · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Mila is a given name, most frequently recorded in India. In Ecuador it is the 46th most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: A female given name from the Slavic languages.

rarermore common
  • HRCroatia1 in 295◐
  • ECEcuador1 in 315
  • FIFinland1 in 544

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈239K ●

across 10 countries

#338 ●

of 16M given names

8 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
379 ●

2.9M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 295 ◐

Croatia

Spellings & scripts●

MeeraLatin · Hindi●1.8M records
МайраCyrillic · Russian●62K records
מירהHebrew · Hebrew●45K records
미라Hangul · Korean●38K records
ᲛილაGeorgian · Georgian●927 records
ՄիլաArmenian · Armenian●179 records
ไมลาThai · Thai●136 records
ΜιραGreek · Greek●57 records

7 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Mayra in US United States, AR Argentina, MX Mexico and 8 more, Mira in HR Croatia, TR Türkiye, DE Germany and 5 more, Maira in BR Brazil, CL Chile and Мира in RU Russia, KG Kyrgyzstan.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

A female given name from the Slavic languages.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Mila is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India#1162,761,263990K rec.—1.3KMeera189
AR Argentina#271494,882264K rec.—23KMayra112
MX Mexico#133399,428289K rec.—3.4KMayra202
VE Venezuela#103234,47271K rec.——Mayra51
PE Peru#324102,30278K rec.——Mayra81
CO Colombia#12586,09127K rec.—71Mayra131
US United States#65965,535458K rec.1 in 5.1K66KMayra379
TR Türkiye—54,39853K rec.—2.2KMira32
EC Ecuador#4653,593△2.4K rec.1 in 31577KMayra68
BR Brazil#32952,12087K rec.1 in 4.1K56KMaira167
RU Russia#49351,55027K rec.—#239Мира132
IL Israel#27441,49643K rec.—99מירה47

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • French126K20%
  • English106K17%
  • Spanish73K11%
  • Portuguese67K11%
  • Hindi41K6%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
French126,48020%
English106,17917%
Spanish73,24911%
Portuguese67,37311%
Hindi41,4126%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Mila is also recorded as 8 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name178K records spelled Mila47 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Netherlands, Australia, Canada

    Languages: English, German, Western Frisian

    Also written Milae, Milà, Milá, Mi-La, Milå

  • Hindi given name56K records spelled Mila16 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Spain, United States, Philippines

    Languages: Hindi, Bangla, Urdu

    Also written মিলা, ମୁଳା, ମୁଲା, Milaa, Miľă

  • English given name51K records spelled Mila111 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Philippines, Croatia, United States

    Languages: English, Russian, Croatian

    Also written Myla, Мила, Міла, Милая, Милла

  • Indonesian given name43K records spelled Mila6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Philippines, Spain, India

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay, Malagasy

    Also written 'Mila, Mílà, Milá

  • Finnish given name18K records spelled Mila6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, Estonia, United States, Philippines

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Mïlä, Milà, Mïla, Míla

  • Turkish given name11K records spelled Mila11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, United States, Philippines, Syria

    Languages: Turkish, Azerbaijani, Turkmen

    Also written Milâ, Mīlà, Milà, Míla, Milã

  • a separate given name4.1K records spelled Mila5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, United Kingdom, Spain

    Also written Milà, Milá, Míla, Milâ

  • Hungarian given name3.7K records spelled Mila2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Slovenia, Hungary, United States, Spain

    Also written Milà

53 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Mila is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Spanish, clipping of milanesa

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Serbo-Croatian, inflection of mio:

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Russian, 1 (14) janvier. Emilie est son équivalent français. Fêtes : 19 septembre, 17 août. 143

    as a nameRussian Names

  • In German, weibl. Vom., tschechische Kurzform (Mila) mehrerer weiblicher Vornamen, z. B.

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • In Russian, 19 juillet (1 août).

    as a nameRussian Names

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

02.5K5K7.5K10K1900195020008.2K · 2018

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Mila in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1881–2025
Yearrecords
18815
18895
18907
18927
18936
18985
19005
19016
19039
19045
19095
191210
19139
191416
191514
191618
19177
191814
191911
192014
192120
192224
192315
192414
192517
192615
192723
192822
192914
193018
193110
193217
19338
193414
193519
193613
193714
193812
193917
194012
194111
194217
194314
194415
194519
194615
194727
194819
194919
195012
195122
195219
195328
195426
195522
195630
195719
195826
195926
196022
196134
196226
196333
196420
196523
196619
196726
196827
196928
197023
197123
197222
197323
197415
197524
197617
197721
197813
197925
198019
198113
198214
198325
198431
198522
198713
198810
198916
199021
199118
199225
199311
199418
199519
199626
199750
199861
199962
200078
200189
2002131
2003180
2004192
2005238
2006371
2007385
2008554
2009667
2010881
20111,798
20122,642
20133,680
20144,064
20154,733
20164,830
20175,974
20188,169
20197,343
20206,646
20216,337
20226,487
20235,920
20245,484
20254,796

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 124 years between 1881–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1900195020002050Mila Schön, b. 1916Mila Parély, b. 1917Mila Racine, b. 1919Mila Ximénez, b. 1952Mila Mulroney, b. 1953Mila Turajlić, b. 1979Mila Guy, b. 1992Mila Azul, b. 1997Mila Syvatska, b. 1998Mila Lieu, b. 2012

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 120 sources across 59 countries.

Official registers attesting Mila
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202047K#937
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)202431K#48
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—6.5K#560
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)20254.8K—
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20224.7K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—4.7K#3,514
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—4.6K#2,855
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—4.4K#662
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021)20214.3K—
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—4.2K#711
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—4K—
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)20213.3K#274

Reference works 4

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 1,535 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Mila?
We estimate roughly 239 thousand people bear Mila (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
In which country does Mila have the most bearers?
Mila is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled meera.
Where is Mila most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mila is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 295 people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
How common is Mila compared with other names?
In India, Mila is the 116th most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.
Is Mila a male or female name?
Mila is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Mila mean?
Recorded meaning: A female given name from the Slavic languages.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Mila” — the 116th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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