Milena

given name · Portuguese · Latin script

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

Milena is a given name, most frequently recorded in Argentina. In Colombia it is the 40th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Portuguese and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Milena är ett slaviskt namn, bildat till ett ord (mil) med betydelsen ’kär’ och ändelsen -ena, eller en femininform till → Milan med samma betydelse.

rarermore common
  • COColombia1 in 249◐
  • AMArmenia1 in 383
  • BRBrazil1 in 1.1K

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

≈406K ●

across 18 countries

#903 ●

of 16M given names

6 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
247 ●

356K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 222 ◐

Czechia

Spellings & scripts●

MilenaLatin · Portuguese●2.3M records
ᲛილენაGeorgian · Georgian●2.7K records
ՄիլենաArmenian · Armenian●687 records
МиленаCyrillic · Tajik●19 records
ΜιλέναGreek · Greek●7 records
밀레나Hangul · Korean●3 records

Locally spelled Милена in KZ Kazakhstan and Მილენა in GE Georgia.

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●

recorded in Swedish

Milena är ett slaviskt namn, bildat till ett ord (mil) med betydelsen ’kär’ och ändelsen -ena, eller en femininform till → Milan med samma betydelse. De tidigaste svenska beläggen kan ha en annan bakgrund.

Sources 1

  • Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Milena is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AR Argentina#369266,104120K rec.—945Milena92
CO Colombia#40250,33772K rec.——Milena158
BR Brazil#216199,909△50K rec.1 in 1.1K200KMilena181
PL Poland—78,513△1 rec.1 in 48879K—1
CZ Czechia—48,102—1 in 22248K——
VE Venezuela#67236,03023K rec.——Milena45
PE Peru#80230,06721K rec.——Milena59
BG Bulgaria—22,946△3 rec.1 in 30423K—3
CL Chile#55412,5901.1K rec.—1Milena77
EC Ecuador#57612,287△535 rec.1 in 1.4K12KMilena40
PY Paraguay#19310,7756K rec.——Milena26
US United States—8,90711K rec.1 in 37K8.9KMilena247

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

Languages●

  • Portuguese2.3M54%
  • Spanish682K16%
  • Polish346K8%
  • English276K7%
  • Czech226K5%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Portuguese2,255,68554%
Spanish682,34916%
Polish345,7698%
English276,2947%
Czech225,7285%

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◐

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

  • Bulgarian given name860K records spelled Milena66 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Bulgaria, Poland, Czechia, Russia

    Languages: Bulgarian, Polish, Czech

    Also written Милена, Мілена, Милен, Милены, Mylene

  • English given name331K records spelled Milena21 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Bulgaria, United States, Germany

    Languages: English, German, Norwegian Bokmål

    Also written Miléna, Milèna, Mïlênä, Milenå, Mïlënä

  • Hungarian given name17K records spelled Milena3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Slovenia, Hungary, Serbia, United States

    Also written Miléna, Milèna

  • Italian given name10K records spelled Milena5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United States, Spain, Canada

    Also written Miléna, Mìlena, Milenã, Milenà

  • a separate given name9.0K records spelled Milena2 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Miléna

  • Finnish given name8.0K records spelled Milena3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, Estonia, United States, Latvia

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Miléna

  • Lao given name3.8K records spelled Milena10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Laos, Thailand, United States, Spain

    Languages: Lao, Thai

    Also written มิเลน่า, มิเลนา, Mïlena, Mïlënä, มเลนา

  • Romanian given name3.6K records spelled Milena4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Moldova, Italy, United States, Spain

    Also written Mìlena, Miléna, Mïlenä

47 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●

Milena 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 French, Variante slave de Mylène, généralement rattachée à l’idée de « chère, aimée » (racine slavonne mil-).

    as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

  • In English, Czech: the Favoured One

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

  • In German, ) Milena: um 1930 aus dem Tschechischen übernommener wdbl.

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • Graziosa

    as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…

  • In Catalan, feminine singular of milè

    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●

020406019001950200051 · 1988

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Milena in ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search), Kosovo, 1898–2023
Yearrecords
18981
19022
19071
19082
19111
19121
19141
19162
19192
19211
19221
19232
19244
19252
19262
19272
19282
19302
19312
19323
19334
19347
19352
19368
19371
19382
19397
19404
19415
19423
19443
19452
19468
194714
194810
194911
195012
195110
19528
195313
19544
19557
19566
19576
19588
19598
19603
19614
19626
19632
19643
19652
19663
19672
19682
19692
19704
19716
19725
19736
19747
19758
197611
19778
197810
197910
198016
198113
198224
198322
198432
198523
198634
198749
198851
198938
199039
199137
199234
199343
199425
199511
199622
199717
199810
199916
200011
20018
20025
20036
20046
20055
20065
20076
20085
20091
20101
20124
20131
20143
20151
20163
20172
20181
20231

XK ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) — 105 years between 1898–2023. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

18001850190019502000Milena Vukotić, b. 1847Milena Jesenská, b. 1896Milena Pavlović-Barili, b. 1909Milena Vukotic, b. 1935Milena Dravić, b. 1940Milena Canonero, b. 1949Milena Miconi, b. 1971Milena Govich, b. 1976Milena Markovna, b. 1983Milena Smit, b. 1996

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 92 sources across 48 countries.

Official registers attesting Milena
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022200K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—199K#163
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—159K#316
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—79K#74
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)202679K#74
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—48K#93
CZ Czechianaše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot—24K#104
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)202016K—
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names202412K#174
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20208.9K#2,650
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20257.3K#25
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—7.2K#59

Reference works 3

  • 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 · 1,155 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Milena?
We estimate roughly 406 thousand people bear Milena (counting its spellings and scripts) across 18 countries in our records.
In which country does Milena have the most bearers?
Milena is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled milena.
Where is Milena most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Milena is densest in the Czechia — about 1 in 222 people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.
How common is Milena compared with other names?
In Argentina, Milena is the 369th most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.
Is Milena a male or female name?
Milena 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 Milena mean?
Recorded meaning: Milena är ett slaviskt namn, bildat till ett ord (mil) med betydelsen ’kär’ och ändelsen -ena, eller en femininform till → Milan med samma betydelse.
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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, “Milena” — the 369th most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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