# Mila (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/mila/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | Spanish |
| Meaning | “grace”, “beloved” |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 84,577 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 88 / 84,489 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 12,387, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

From a diminutive in many Slavic languages Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, and Serbo-Croatian, etc.) of female given names containing the element Mil-, -mila ("grace, beloved"), such as Ludmila, Milena, Milica, and of the cognates of Emily. Also from Spanish Mila.

## What it means

Mila is grouped under grace and love.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 1,798 | 174 |
| 2012 | 2,642 | 115 |
| 2013 | 3,680 | 79 |
| 2014 | 4,064 | 72 |
| 2015 | 4,733 | 53 |
| 2016 | 4,830 | 48 |
| 2017 | 5,974 | 30 |
| 2018 | 8,169 | 14 |
| 2019 | 7,343 | 19 |
| 2020 | 6,646 | 20 |
| 2021 | 6,337 | 26 |
| 2022 | 6,487 | 18 |
| 2023 | 5,920 | 28 |
| 2024 | 5,484 | 33 |
| 2025 | 4,796 | 43 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 7 | 10,413 |
| 2014 | 7 | 10,368 |
| 2015 | 8 | 9,281 |
| 2016 | 8 | 9,407 |
| 2017 | 7 | 10,421 |
| 2018 | 5 | 13,485 |
| 2020 | 10 | 7,888 |
| 2021 | 9 | 8,611 |
| 2022 | 10 | 8,115 |
| 2023 | 11 | 7,582 |
| 2025 | 6 | 11,544 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 186 | 261 |
| 2012 | 326 | 160 |
| 2013 | 456 | 124 |
| 2014 | 533 | 106 |
| 2015 | 692 | 79 |
| 2016 | 679 | 81 |
| 2017 | 774 | 74 |
| 2018 | 1,050 | 49 |
| 2019 | 1,017 | 50 |
| 2020 | 973 | 47 |
| 2021 | 1,133 | 39 |
| 2022 | 1,042 | 45 |
| 2023 | 1,127 | 35 |
| 2024 | 953 | 46 |
| 2025 | 1,014 | 40 |

## People named Mila

- Mila Parély, actress (1917-2012)
- Mila Gojsalić, Croatian folk heroine
- Mila del Sol, Filipino actress (1923-2020)
- Mila Pavićević, Croatian writer

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.