Milcah
- Gender
- Girl
- Origin
- Hebrew
- US rank, 2025
- #11,928 for girls
Milcah is a girls' name of Hebrew origin. In 2025 it ranked 11,928th for girls in the US (7 babies).
What does Milcah mean?
Hebrew
A female given name from Hebrew.
From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Is Milcah a girl's or a boy's name?
Milcah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Milcah in the UK?
No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2024, with 6 girls.
Milcah in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6 | #3,758 |
| 2023 | 3 | #5,929 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 4 | #4,980 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 3 | #6,007 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 3 | #5,772 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 3 | #5,259 |
How popular is Milcah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #11,928among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 7about 1 in 230,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 7 girls in the US were named Milcah, making it the 11,928th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 10,245th. Its busiest year was 2021, with 18 girls. It first appears in the records in 1972.
2025 had fewer girls named Milcah than any year since 2018.
Half of all the girls named Milcah in the US since 1880 were born between 2007 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
Milcah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #11,928 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,266 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,307 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,050 |
| 2021 | 18 | #6,409 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,245 |
| 2019 | 10 | #9,730 |
| 2018 | 7 | #12,459 |
| 2017 | 8 | #11,611 |
| 2016 | 6 | #14,326 |
| 2015 | 9 | #10,861 |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,063 |
| 2013 | 6 | #14,577 |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 10 | #10,446 |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 7 | #13,918 |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 8 | #11,828 |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 6 | #13,837 |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,049 |
| 2000 | 7 | #11,794 |
| 1999 | 5 | #14,403 |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 0 | – |
| 1993 | 0 | – |
| 1992 | 0 | – |
| 1991 | 0 | – |
| 1990 | 0 | – |
| 1989 | 0 | – |
| 1988 | 0 | – |
| 1987 | 0 | – |
| 1986 | 0 | – |
| 1985 | 0 | – |
| 1984 | 0 | – |
| 1983 | 0 | – |
| 1982 | 5 | #10,514 |
| 1981 | 0 | – |
| 1980 | 0 | – |
| 1979 | 0 | – |
| 1978 | 0 | – |
| 1977 | 0 | – |
| 1976 | 0 | – |
| 1975 | 0 | – |
| 1974 | 0 | – |
| 1973 | 0 | – |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,290 |
Names like Milcah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Raya Dua Safa Ayah Nusaybah Esme Ayra Delilah Zainab Hafsa Maryam Mirha
Names related to Milcah
More Hebrew names
Noah Isabella Elijah James Jack Mia Ava Jude Ezra Benjamin Isaac Jacob Ethan Daniel Samuel Elias
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, “Milcah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/milcah, updated 20 October 2026.