Milan

given name · Czech · Latin script

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

Milan is a given name, with more bearers in the Czechia than in any other country, where it is the 22nd most common given name. It appears chiefly in Czech and Hungarian, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Slavic origin, from a name related to “brillante victoire” (bright victory).

rarermore common
  • CZCzechia1 in 50◐
  • RSSerbia1 in 74
  • SKSlovakia1 in 99

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

≈329K ●

across 14 countries

3 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
326 ●

496K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 50 ◐

Czechia

Spellings & scripts●

MilanLatin · Czech●1M records
МиланCyrillic · Russian●12K records
มิลานThai · Thai●54 records

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Milano in IT Italy, FR France, Милан in RU Russia, MK North Macedonia, Milana in NO Norway, LV Latvia and Мілан in UA Ukraine.

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●

Slavic origin, from a name related to “brillante victoire” (bright victory).

Sources 1

  • Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Milan is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CZ Czechia#22214,916△14K rec.1 in 50215KMilan168
IT Italy—112,6658.3K rec.—10MILano116
RS Serbia#443,17128K rec.—listedMilan109
IN India—34,66012K rec.—listedMilan123
HU Hungary#9326,916△2.8K rec.1 in 36327KMilan110
SK Slovakia#1124,8171.8K rec.——Milan142
HR Croatia#1924,03897K rec.1 in 17624KMilan106
DE Germany#81114,41112K rec.—1Milan165
FR France—13,410△3.5K rec.1 in 5.1K13KMILano180
RU Russia—13,0227.6K rec.—#694Милан103
AR Argentina—11,54826K rec.—2.8KMilan70
US United States—11,232129K rec.1 in 30K11KMilan326

Roughly 215K people in Czechia bear this name (about 1 in 50). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

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

Languages●

  • Czech1M44%
  • Hungarian348K15%
  • Croatian229K10%
  • Hindi222K9%
  • English104K4%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Czech1,042,74444%
Hungarian347,81115%
Croatian228,84610%
Hindi221,5709%
English104,2204%

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◐

Milan is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate given name125K records spelled Milan5 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Milán, Mīlān, Milän, Milàn

  • Bangla surname24K records spelled Milan37 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Bangladesh, India, Malaysia, United States

    Languages: Bangla, Arabic, Chinese

    Also written Milon, মিলন, Miln, Milun, Mìlöñ

  • Danish given name8.8K records spelled Milan21 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, Norway, United States, Netherlands

    Languages: Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian

    Also written Milán, MILano, Mílâño, Milânõ, Milàn

  • Catalan given name6.4K records spelled Milan2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain

    Also written Milán

  • Indonesian given name6.1K records spelled Milan2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Indonesia, Philippines, United States

    Also written Milán

  • Sinhala given name4.7K records spelled Milan8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Sri Lanka, United Kingdom

    Also written Malin, Mulin, Mulaan, මලිනි, මිලාන්

  • Finnish given name4.5K records spelled Milan12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, India, Netherlands, Estonia

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Mïlãnõ, Mìlanõ, Mïlänö, Milănô, Milán

81 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●

Milan 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.

  • from the Slavic personal name Milan, a derivative of names such as Bohumil and Miloslav, containing the element mil ‘grace’, ‘favor’.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • nickname from mildn ‘kite’ (the bird of prey).

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • habitational name from the Italian city of Milan (see Milano).

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • In Swedish, Milan är ett slaviskt namn, bildat till ordet mil med betydelsen ’kär’ och ändelsen -an. I Sverige användes det också i slutet av 1800-talet, då kanske som en bildning till det vanliga → Emil.

    as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

  • In French, Le milan est une sorte de fromage à croûte rouge qui vient de la capitale de la Lombar die.

    as a name2500 noms propres devenus communs : dictionnaire étymologique (éponymes, antonomases et hypallages)

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●

020406019001950200046 · 1983

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Milan in ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search), Kosovo, 1879–2025
Yearrecords
18791
18822
18881
18901
18911
18921
18931
18951
18962
18972
18994
19004
19011
19022
19032
19049
19054
19066
190712
19088
19094
19104
19119
19123
19139
19142
19156
19162
19173
19181
19209
19217
19222
19234
19246
19257
19268
19274
192812
19296
19308
193115
193210
193311
19347
193514
193615
193718
19388
193919
194012
19417
194211
19438
194411
194515
194618
194714
194817
194931
195030
195118
195238
195317
195425
195517
195622
195722
195823
195921
196020
196116
196213
19639
196414
196510
196612
196725
196815
196911
197014
197111
197215
197311
197417
197516
197614
197712
197818
197918
198023
198120
198241
198346
198437
198536
198642
198739
198825
198933
199036
199132
199227
199342
199436
199530
199631
199723
199817
199926
20007
200110
200217
200311
200412
20059
20068
200710
200810
20096
20103
20115
20124
20134
20142
20153
20163
20182
20193
20203
20212
20222
20251

XK ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) — 133 years between 1879–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1850190019502000Milan I Obrenović, b. 1854Milan Nedić, b. 1878Milan Kundera, b. 1929Milan Babić, b. 1956Milan Baroš, b. 1981Milan Jovanović, b. 1981Olivier Schneider, b. 1982Milan Badelj, b. 1989Milan Mačvan, b. 1989Milan Škriniar, b. 1995

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 57 countries.

Official registers attesting Milan
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—215K#21
CZ Czechianaše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot—107K#23
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)202124K#23
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021)202117K—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)202413K#100
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202011K#1,752
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names202510K#14
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—10K#23
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)20269.8K#176
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—8.9K#180
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names20248.5K#215
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020106.3K#5,543

Reference works 9

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
  • Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary

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

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 1,625 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Milan?
We estimate roughly 329 thousand people bear Milan (counting its spellings and scripts) across 14 countries in our records.
In which country does Milan have the most bearers?
We estimate about 215 thousand people bear Milan in the Czechia, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled milan.
Where is Milan most common?
Milan is densest in the Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 50 people carrying it.
How common is Milan compared with other names?
In the Czechia, Milan is the 22nd most common given name of 28,899 given names recorded there.
Is Milan a male or female name?
Milan is a male 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 Milan mean?
Recorded meaning: Slavic origin, from a name related to “brillante victoire” (bright victory).
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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, “Milan” — the 22nd most common given name in Czechia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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