Milah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- MEE-la
- Origin
- Slavic
- UK rank, 2025
- #1,570 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #1,684 for girls
Milah is a girls' name of Slavic origin, meaning “dear, gracious”. In 2025 it ranked 1,570th for girls in the UK (20 babies) and 1,684th for girls in the US (122 babies).
What does Milah mean?
Slavic: spelling of Mila
“dear, gracious”
Spelling of Mila, from the Slavic element mil, dear.
Is Milah a girl's or a boy's name?
Milah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 20 girls in the UK and 122 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Milah in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 1,570th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 20 about 1 in 14,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Falling down 32% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 20 girls in the UK were named Milah, making it the 1,570th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 1,526th. Its busiest year was 2018, with 26 girls.
Half of all the girls named Milah in the UK since 1996 were born between 2016 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 1,153 girls in the UK were given Milah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #46, up from #1,570 for this spelling alone.
Among girls in 2025, it was 1,892nd in England and Wales and 539th in Scotland.
Milah in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20 | #1,570 |
| 2024 | 11 | #2,480 |
| 2023 | 15 | #1,955 |
| 2022 | 19 | #1,667 |
| 2021 | 20 | #1,605 |
| 2020 | 21 | #1,526 |
| 2019 | 21 | #1,531 |
| 2018 | 26 | #1,335 |
| 2017 | 17 | #1,833 |
| 2016 | 20 | #1,653 |
| 2015 | 22 | #1,527 |
| 2014 | 12 | #2,320 |
| 2013 | 6 | #3,719 |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 4 | #4,980 |
| 2010 | 3 | #5,938 |
| 2009 | 1 | #7,377 |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 1 | #6,685 |
How popular is Milah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 1,684th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 122 about 1 in 13,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Falling down 35% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 122 girls in the US were named Milah, making it the 1,684th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 1,165th. Its busiest year was 2018, with 236 girls. It first appears in the records in 1997.
It has been given to fewer girls each year for the last 4 years. 2025 had fewer girls named Milah than any year since 2011.
Half of all the girls named Milah in the US since 1880 were born between 2014 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 4,946 girls in the US were given Milah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #53, up from #1,684 for this spelling alone.
Milah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 122 | #1,684 |
| 2024 | 143 | #1,509 |
| 2023 | 148 | #1,474 |
| 2022 | 172 | #1,355 |
| 2021 | 208 | #1,175 |
| 2020 | 200 | #1,165 |
| 2019 | 203 | #1,173 |
| 2018 | 236 | #1,075 |
| 2017 | 228 | #1,104 |
| 2016 | 201 | #1,224 |
| 2015 | 213 | #1,183 |
| 2014 | 178 | #1,326 |
| 2013 | 155 | #1,446 |
| 2012 | 136 | #1,591 |
| 2011 | 81 | #2,298 |
| 2010 | 49 | #3,305 |
| 2009 | 44 | #3,618 |
| 2008 | 37 | #4,178 |
| 2007 | 21 | #6,319 |
| 2006 | 21 | #6,123 |
| 2005 | 14 | #7,886 |
| 2004 | 16 | #7,072 |
| 2003 | 6 | #13,837 |
| 2002 | 11 | #8,831 |
| 2001 | 5 | #15,345 |
| 2000 | 15 | #6,802 |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,011 |
| 1997 | 7 | #10,831 |
Names like Milah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Nusaybah, Ayah, Zainab, Hafsa, Aaliyah, Izzah, Ruqayyah, Rahma, Hiba, Sumayyah, Safaa
Other spellings of Milah
Names related to Milah
More Slavic names
Milan, Vera, Mira, Nadia, Milana, Rayna, Zora, Milena, Raina, Damir, Lev, Siyana, Vlad, Lilyana, Yuri, Raisa
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Milah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/milah, updated 20 October 2026.