Milka
given name · Croatian · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Milka is a given name, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country, where it is the 45th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Croatian and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: From Biblical Hebrew מלכה (milká).
- HRCroatia1 in 265◐
- RSSerbia1 in 791
- MKNorth Macedonia1 in 919
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈27K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 137 ●
- 1 in 265 ◐
across 11 countries
recorded for this name
91K records
Official registry-verified
Croatia
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Милка in MK North Macedonia, RU Russia.
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 Biblical Hebrew מלכה (milká).
Sources 2
Attested across 10 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | #45 | 15,927 | 68K rec. | 1 in 265 | 16K | Milka | 42 |
| BG Bulgaria | #226 | 6,585 | 2.5K rec. | — | — | Milka | 59 |
| RS Serbia | #121 | 4,059 | 2K rec. | — | listed | Milka | 36 |
| MK North Macedonia | #153 | 2,313△ | 16 rec. | 1 in 919 | 2.3K | Милка | 10 |
| BR Brazil | — | 2,066△ | 2 rec. | 1 in 102K | 2.1K | Milka | 3 |
| US United States | — | 1,918 | 10K rec. | 1 in 173K | 1.9K | Milka | 137 |
| DE Germany | — | 1,375 | 1.5K rec. | — | — | Milka | 78 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 1,235△ | 5 rec. | 1 in 14K | 1.2K | Milka | 9 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 1,222△ | 27 rec. | 1 in 1.7K | 1.2K | Milka | 10 |
| FI Finland | — | 1,092△ | 33 rec. | 1 in 5.1K | 1.5K | Milka | 13 |
| VE Venezuela | — | 773 | 0 rec. | — | — | Milka | 1 |
| AU Australia | — | 731 | 695 rec. | — | 1 | Milka | 56 |
Roughly 16K people in Croatia bear this name (about 1 in 265). 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●
- Croatian126K49%
- Spanish30K12%
- Portuguese30K11%
- Swahili28K11%
- English13K5%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Croatian | 125,815 | 49% |
| Spanish | 29,681 | 12% |
| Portuguese | 29,532 | 11% |
| Swahili | 27,600 | 11% |
| English | 12,661 | 5% |
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●
Milka is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Russian, "dear."
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In Finnish, Milcah.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Misūri pieteka ASV un Kanādā (angļu val. "Milk"), garums - 1173 km, sākas Klinšu kalnos
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, apdzīvota vieta (skrajciems) Rēzeknes novada Mākoņkalna pagastā
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Blēdis, krāpnieks; paviršs strādnieks, haltūrists; muļķis
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, liela auguma, neveikla sieviete
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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 |
|---|---|
| 1921 | 1 |
| 1924 | 1 |
| 1926 | 2 |
| 1927 | 2 |
| 1928 | 1 |
| 1929 | 1 |
| 1930 | 2 |
| 1931 | 2 |
| 1933 | 3 |
| 1934 | 2 |
| 1937 | 3 |
| 1938 | 2 |
| 1939 | 5 |
| 1940 | 4 |
| 1941 | 5 |
| 1943 | 5 |
| 1944 | 8 |
| 1945 | 6 |
| 1946 | 2 |
| 1947 | 6 |
| 1948 | 4 |
| 1950 | 2 |
| 1951 | 5 |
| 1952 | 5 |
| 1953 | 7 |
| 1954 | 5 |
| 1955 | 6 |
| 1956 | 7 |
| 1957 | 4 |
| 1958 | 6 |
| 1959 | 10 |
| 1960 | 9 |
| 1961 | 10 |
| 1962 | 13 |
| 1963 | 12 |
| 1964 | 13 |
| 1965 | 15 |
| 1966 | 20 |
| 1967 | 17 |
| 1968 | 22 |
| 1969 | 21 |
| 1970 | 22 |
| 1971 | 30 |
| 1972 | 23 |
| 1973 | 24 |
| 1974 | 21 |
| 1975 | 32 |
| 1976 | 22 |
| 1977 | 26 |
| 1978 | 24 |
| 1979 | 22 |
| 1980 | 8 |
| 1981 | 15 |
| 1982 | 17 |
| 1983 | 15 |
| 1984 | 15 |
| 1985 | 17 |
| 1986 | 13 |
| 1987 | 10 |
| 1988 | 19 |
| 1989 | 22 |
| 1990 | 11 |
| 1991 | 22 |
| 1992 | 19 |
| 1993 | 17 |
| 1994 | 23 |
| 1995 | 14 |
| 1996 | 12 |
| 1997 | 20 |
| 1998 | 18 |
| 1999 | 10 |
| 2000 | 7 |
| 2001 | 11 |
| 2002 | 13 |
| 2003 | 10 |
| 2004 | 8 |
| 2005 | 5 |
| 2006 | 6 |
| 2007 | 6 |
| 2008 | 8 |
| 2009 | 7 |
| 2010 | 3 |
| 2011 | 4 |
| 2012 | 4 |
| 2013 | 2 |
| 2014 | 3 |
| 2015 | 3 |
| 2016 | 1 |
| 2017 | 3 |
| 2018 | 5 |
| 2019 | 2 |
| 2020 | 1 |
| 2021 | 2 |
CL SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) — 93 years between 1921–2021. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Milka Terninab. 1863HRCroatian opera singer (1863-1941)
- Milka Badjurab. 1902SISlovenian film director
- Milka Hartmanb. 1902ATpoet (1902–1997)
- Milka Ivićb. 1923RSlinguist
- Milka Planincb. 1924HRYugoslav politician (1924–2010)
- Milka Babovićb. 1928HRYugoslavian athlete and journalist (1928–2020)
- Milka Zimkováb. 1951SKSlovak actress, director, dramatic and writer (1951–2023)
- Milka Ahlrothb. 1966FIFinnish actress
- Milka Chulinab. 1974VEMiss Venezuela 1992
- Milka Loff Fernandesb. 1980DEGerman actress and television presenter
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 68 sources across 38 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 16K | #57 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 10K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 2.1K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 2K | #4,999 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 2K | #5,916 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.9K | #7,736 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 1.5K | #1,262 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 1.2K | #813 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2025 | 1.2K | #181 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 1.2K | #347 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 1.1K | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 434 | #3,060 |
Reference works 4
- Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
- 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 · 683 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Milka?
- We estimate roughly 27 thousand people bear Milka (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
- In which country does Milka have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 16 thousand people bear Milka in Croatia, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled milka.
- Where is Milka most common?
- Milka is densest in Croatia, where the national register counts about 1 in 265 people carrying it.
- How common is Milka compared with other names?
- In Croatia, Milka is the 45th most common given name of 13,510 given names recorded there.
- Is Milka a male or female name?
- Milka 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 Milka mean?
- Recorded meaning: From Biblical Hebrew מלכה (milká).
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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, “Milka” — the 45th most common given name in Croatia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.