Mila

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Mila is ranked 33rd among girls in 2024 (5,472 births). Its best rank was 14th, in 2018.

Rank in 2024: #33down 5 from 2023
Births in 2024: 5,4720.34% of girls
Peak year: 20188,167 births
Best rank: #14in 2018
Since 1881: 79,664people given the name

Babies named Mila, by year of birthgirls

The story in the numbers

79,664 girls have been named Mila in the United States since 1881, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2018, with 8,167 births — 0.48% of all girls recorded that year.

This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2018, and the 2010s alone account for 55%. It has spent 20 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 12 of them in the top 100.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	girls named Mila
1880s	10
1890s	25
1900s	30
1910s	99
1920s	178
1930s	142
1940s	168
1950s	230
1960s	258
1970s	206
1980s	164
1990s	311
2000s	2,885
2010s	44,110
2020s	30,848

In 2018, its biggest year

Mila was the 14th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2018 were Emma, Olivia, Ava, Isabella and Sophia. See all of 2018.

Names that rose and fell with Mila

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.