Milenka

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Languages●

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◐

Milenka is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Croatian given name6.7K records spelled Milenka9 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Croatia, Serbia, United States, Bulgaria

  Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Slovenian

  Also written Миленка

• Ukrainian surname76 records spelled Milenka9 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Ukraine, Russia, Peru

  Languages: Ukrainian, Russian, Belarusian

  Also written Миленька, Міленька, Миленка, Mîlênka

35 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●

Milenka 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 Czech, female lover (a sexual partner)

  as a word·kaikki.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●

CL SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) — 70 years between 1936–2021. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Karen Torrezb. 1992BOnot in their usual nameBolivian swimmer
• Milenka Nolascob. 2005PEPeruvian Internet celebrity
• Milenka SainHRresearcher

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 285 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Milenka?

We estimate roughly 1.7 thousand people bear Milenka (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.

In which country does Milenka have the most bearers?

Milenka is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled milenka.

Where is Milenka most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Milenka is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 5.0 thousand people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.

How common is Milenka compared with other names?

In Bolivia, Milenka is the 67th most common given name of 14,901 given names recorded there.

Is Milenka a male or female name?

Milenka 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.