Mila

Where Mila comes from

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.
— Wiktionary's entry for Mila
  • Slavic
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1600
    Mila Gojsalić born
    Croatian folk heroine
  2. 1881
    First appearance
    #830 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1998
    Mila Syvatska born
    Ukrainian actor
  4. 2018
    Peak, #14
    8,169 babies named Mila — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from the Slavic languages.
Namesakes
  • Mila Syvatska · Ukrainian actor, born 1998
  • Mila Gojsalić · Croatian folk heroine, 1600–1530
  • Mila Parély · actress, 1917–2012
  • Mila del Sol · Filipino actress, 1923–2020
  • Mila Pavićević · Croatian writer, born 1988

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.