Milan

#751 for girls in 2025, 362 births · #242 for boys in 2025, 1,418 births
Given to boys 66.1% of the time

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Peak · boys
#230
2023 · 1,524 births
Debut · boys
1885
6 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
18,608
since 1885

Milan over time

girlsboys

Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201926peak #593, 2013girlsboysat peak
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#751362#2421,418
2024#698403#2311,554
2023#645453#2301,524
2022#661448#3261,038
2021#655456#388832
2020#634457#431690
2019#719397#451664
2018#737379#451662
2017#742381#465651
2016#751379#451687
2015#697408#425725
2014#670425#413753
2013#593479#546486
2012#727382#1,182153
2011#614471#1,183149
2010#667435#1,232143
2009#784360#1,182153
2008#1,089239#1,119163
2007#1,024258#1,229143
2006#1,151212#1,367118
2005#1,115212#1,296118
2004#1,170192#1,235122
2003#1,422139#1,291109
2002#1,468130#1,34698
2001#1,686107#1,231108
2000#1,84593#1,175116
1999#1,77090#1,36687
1998#1,272142#1,092118
1997#1,343128#1,065119
1996#1,68590#1,22691
1995#2,30957#1,33877
1994#2,38154#1,28882
1993#2,28956#1,40069
1992#2,73344#1,49061
1991#3,30133#1,50258
1990#3,29733#1,33669
1989#2,98636#1,33667
1988#3,48327#1,48251
1987#4,28319#1,97431
1986#3,64523#1,47646
1985#4,28218#1,50444
1984#5,89911#1,76432
1983#5,82411#1,47042
1982#7,4698#1,46443
1981—#1,66135
1980—#1,35748
1979—#1,10066
1978—#1,12161
1977—#1,49038
1976—#1,50236
1975—#1,40739
1974—#1,22946
1973#6,6667#1,51432
1972#8,2925#1,10754
1971—#1,35239
1970—#1,31440
1969#5,4568#1,05054
1968—#1,25836
1967—#1,10245
1966—#1,23737
1965—#1,06448
1964—#1,09648
1963—#1,21541
1962—#1,34134
1961—#1,20643
1960—#1,15246
1959—#1,12947
1958—#97860
1957—#1,16544
1956—#99956
1955—#97659
1954—#1,03952
1953—#99952
1952—#95356
1951—#98451
1950—#88560
1949—#94254
1948—#92356
1947—#1,00051
1946—#1,03144
1945—#86452
1944—#1,05539
1943—#91753
1942—#76071
1941—#83458
1940—#88151
1939—#84652
1938—#78461
1937—#77163
1936—#69872
1935—#99241
1934—#84555
1933—#76264
1932—#80263
1931—#70274
1930—#74972
1929—#70577
1928—#69084
1927—#72680
1926—#605107
1925—#73079
1924—#73182
1923—#64499
1922—#68690
1921—#65896
1920—#68787
1919—#73875
1918—#72877
1917—#77366
1916—#66279
1915—#73466
1914—#96733
1913—#81834
1912—#80030
1911—#1,11710
1910—#1,1189
1909—#1,4405
1908—#1,1137
1907—#1,0947
1906—#1,2535
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First appearance
1885

The first year at least five boys were named Milan! It came in at #836, and was given to 6 baby boys.

Quietest stretch: 1886–1906, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

See more about Milan
Momentum · boys
Rising
  • 11 spots since 2024 (#231 → #242)
  • 189 spots since 2020 (#431 → #242)
  • 183 spots since 2015 (#425 → #242)
  • Biggest jump: 636 spots in 2013 (#1,182 → #546)
  • Biggest drop: 167 spots in 1946 (#864 → #1,031)
Rise & fade · boys
138 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1885
  • Peaked 2023 at #230 (1,524 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 57 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 57 yrs · run 1912–1943
Share of babies · boys
1 in 1,109
  • Highest: 1 in 1,109 boys born in 2024 were named Milan (0.09%)
  • Latest: 1 in 1,205 boys born in 2025 (0.08%)
  • Its best rank, #230 in 2023, was only 1 in 1,122 (0.09%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2020s
  • 37.9% of all boys named Milan (7,056) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2013
  • Mostly girls until 2012, mostly boys since
all girlsall boys
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1880s6#836 (1885)#836
1890s5#1,066 (1892)#1,066
1900s24#1,094 (1907)#1,225
1910s479#662 (1916)#846
1920s881#605 (1926)#686
1930s617#698 (1936)#795
1940s529#760 (1942)#921
1950s537#885 (1950)#1,011
1960s432#1,050 (1969)#1,172
1970s451#1,100 (1979)#1,314
1980s439#1,336 (1989)#1,549
1990s831#1,065 (1997)#1,310
2000s1,248#1,119 (2008)#1,247
2010s5,073#413 (2014)#680
2020s7,056#230 (2023)#308

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Milan in 1926

boys
#605
107 births · 1 in 10,379 boys

Top boys' names in 1926

  1. #1Robert61,130
  2. #2John56,108
  3. #3James53,196
  4. #4William51,922
  5. #5Charles29,521
  6. #6George25,910
  7. #7Richard25,143
  8. #8Joseph23,756
  9. #9Donald20,912
  10. #10Edward19,375
  11. #605Milan107
More about 1926

boys

1,110,505 boys got a published name in 1926; 1 in 10,379 of them was named Milan, which outranked 87.5% of the 4,837 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 33.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Milan
  1. #601Rosario110
  2. #603Clarance109
  3. #603Sherwood109
  4. #605Milan107
  5. #605Doris107
  6. #605Guillermo107
  7. #608Granville106
  8. #608Jonathan106
  9. #608Lacy106

Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1925
Risers
  1. ↑ 477Jonnie#1,332 → #855
  2. ↑ 433Jorge#1,425 → #992
  3. ↑ 410Faustino#1,390 → #980
  4. ↑ 404Adelbert#1,246 → #842
  5. ↑ 381Cameron#1,164 → #783
Fallers
  1. ↓ 531Okey#984 → #1,515
  2. ↓ 459Florentino#973 → #1,432
  3. ↓ 407Rexford#924 → #1,331
  4. ↓ 380Marshal#973 → #1,353
  5. ↓ 378Coolidge#746 → #1,124

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1926 →