Milena Girl
How popular is Milena?
#950 girl name in 2025
271 baby girls were named Milena in the US in 2025, making it the 950th most popular girl name.
Milena popularity over time
| Rank in 2025 | #950 for girls (▼ 166 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 271 girls |
| 10-year trend | Falling (-27% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #757 in 2015, #825 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2019 (428 girls) |
| Highest rank | #675 in 2019 |
| First recorded | 1918 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.2% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Milena counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Milena family of names ranked #810 for girls in 2025 (#721 the year before), with 296 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Milena | 271 | 92% |
| Mylena | 13 | 4% |
| Milenna | 12 | 4% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Milena is most popular
Babies named Milena per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Illinois: 0.5 per 1,000 (105 girls)
- Massachusetts: 0.4 per 1,000 (51 girls)
- New Jersey: 0.4 per 1,000 (76 girls)
- Florida: 0.4 per 1,000 (169 girls)
- Arizona: 0.3 per 1,000 (47 girls)
Milena by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 5 | #4,807 |
| 1920s | 6 | #4,432 |
| 1940s | 26 | #2,529 |
| 1950s | 39 | #4,624 |
| 1960s | 94 | #3,317 |
| 1970s | 231 | #2,173 |
| 1980s | 239 | #2,645 |
| 1990s | 457 | #2,218 |
| 2000s | 1,351 | #1,303 |
| 2010s | 3,218 | #675 |
| 2020s | 2,083 | #701 |
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Questions
- Is Milena a boy or girl name?
- Milena is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Milena were girls.
- How popular is the name Milena?
- 271 baby girls were named Milena in the US in 2025, making it the 950th most popular girl name.
- When was Milena most popular?
- Milena peaked in 2019, when 428 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #675 in 2019.
- How many people are named Milena?
- 7,749 babies have been named Milena in the US since 1880. We estimate about 7,652 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 11.
- Where is Milena most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Milena was most common in Illinois, at 0.5 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.