Milen
given name · Bulgarian · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Milen is a given name, most frequently recorded in Bulgaria, where it is the 85th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Bulgarian and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: from Slavic mil- 'dear' with suffix -en.
- BGBulgaria1 in 1.9K◐
- USUnited States1 in 1M
- RSSerbia1 in 12K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈901 ●
- 3 ●
- Sources
- 124 ●
- 1 in 128K ◐
across 12 countries
recorded for this name
6.9K records
Official registry-verified
Sweden
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Милен in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan.
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●
from Slavic mil- 'dear' with suffix -en
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BG Bulgaria | #85 | 22,200 | 4.4K rec. | — | — | Milen | 124 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 479 | 229 rec. | — | 3 | Milen | 46 |
| US United States | — | 328 | 952 rec. | 1 in 1M | 4.7K | Milen | 106 |
| RS Serbia | #744 | 263 | 199 rec. | — | — | Milen | 14 |
| RU Russia | — | 230 | 195 rec. | — | — | Милен | 27 |
| ES Spain | — | 194 | 302 rec. | 1 in 258K | 202 | Milen | 32 |
| BR Brazil | — | 113 | — | 1 in 1.9M | 149 | — | — |
| PL Poland | — | 81△ | 29 rec. | 1 in 473K | 81 | Milen | 24 |
| SE Sweden | — | 80△ | 7 rec. | 1 in 128K | 80 | — | 9 |
| IT Italy | — | 69 | 71 rec. | — | 1 | Milen | 12 |
| ID Indonesia | — | 64 | 27 rec. | — | — | Milen | 20 |
| TR Türkiye | — | 56 | 47 rec. | — | — | Milen | 7 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Bulgarian16K52%
- Spanish5.4K18%
- English2.2K7%
- Portuguese1.4K5%
- German8453%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Bulgarian | 15,649 | 52% |
| Spanish | 5,402 | 18% |
| English | 2,211 | 7% |
| Portuguese | 1,448 | 5% |
| German | 845 | 3% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Milen is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Norwegian Bokmål, definite masculine singular of mil
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 17 |
| 2000 | 19 |
| 2001 | 19 |
| 2002 | 19 |
| 2003 | 20 |
| 2004 | 22 |
| 2005 | 22 |
| 2006 | 22 |
| 2007 | 22 |
| 2008 | 24 |
| 2009 | 27 |
| 2010 | 30 |
| 2011 | 27 |
| 2012 | 27 |
| 2013 | 30 |
| 2014 | 32 |
| 2015 | 34 |
| 2016 | 36 |
| 2017 | 35 |
| 2018 | 38 |
| 2019 | 41 |
| 2020 | 42 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Milen Nachevb. 1957BGBulgarian musician
- Milen Ruskovb. 1966BGBulgarian writer
- Milen Veltchevb. 1966BGBulgarian politician
- Milen Ivantchev Vassilevb. 1968BGBulgarian sculptor
- Milen Georgievb. 1974BGBulgarian association football player
- Milen Ivanovb. 1975BGBulgarian musician
- Milen Kostovb. 1989BGBulgarian basketball player (born 1989)
- Milen Zhelevb. 1992BGBulgarian footballer
- Milen Gamakovb. 1994BGBulgarian footballer
- Milen MarinovNZNew Zealand entomologist
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 51 sources across 28 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 328 | #20,756 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 202 | #4,152 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 194 | #9,258 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 188 | #91,004 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 183 | #98,982 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 167 | #20,756 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 158 | #116,774 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 149 | #29,782 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 113 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 81 | #2,396 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 80 | #9,886 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 76 | #9,213 |
Reference works 2
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 · 277 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Milen?
- We estimate roughly 901 people bear Milen (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
- In which country does Milen have the most bearers?
- Milen is most frequently recorded in Bulgaria, where it is most often spelled milen.
- How common is Milen compared with other names?
- In Bulgaria, Milen is the 85th most common given name of 20,382 given names recorded there.
- Is Milen a male or female name?
- Milen is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- What does the name Milen mean?
- Recorded meaning: from Slavic mil- 'dear' with suffix -en
Query this name via API
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About this data
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, “Milen” — the 85th most common given name in Bulgaria. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.