Mileena
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- mih-LEE-na
- Origin
- Slavic
- US rank, 2025
- #1,962 for girls
Mileena is a girls' name of Slavic origin, meaning “dear, gracious”. In 2025 it ranked 1,962nd for girls in the US (98 babies).
What does Mileena mean?
Slavic: spelling of Milena
“dear, gracious”
Mileena is a fighter in the Mortal Kombat video game series, introduced in Mortal Kombat II (1993).
Is Mileena a girl's or a boy's name?
Mileena is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 98 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Mileena in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 1,962nd among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 98 about 1 in 16,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steady up 2% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 98 girls in the US were named Mileena, making it the 1,962nd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 1,687th. Its busiest year was 2021, with 132 girls. It first appears in the records in 1994.
2025 had fewer girls named Mileena than any year since 2018.
Half of all the girls named Mileena in the US since 1880 were born between 2009 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
Mileena in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 98 | #1,962 |
| 2024 | 121 | #1,681 |
| 2023 | 99 | #1,984 |
| 2022 | 118 | #1,754 |
| 2021 | 132 | #1,584 |
| 2020 | 121 | #1,687 |
| 2019 | 102 | #1,933 |
| 2018 | 90 | #2,113 |
| 2017 | 95 | #2,053 |
| 2016 | 110 | #1,865 |
| 2015 | 116 | #1,793 |
| 2014 | 67 | #2,613 |
| 2013 | 83 | #2,236 |
| 2012 | 85 | #2,205 |
| 2011 | 78 | #2,369 |
| 2010 | 46 | #3,469 |
| 2009 | 25 | #5,535 |
| 2008 | 39 | #4,005 |
| 2007 | 34 | #4,379 |
| 2006 | 36 | #4,072 |
| 2005 | 36 | #3,938 |
| 2004 | 17 | #6,763 |
| 2003 | 26 | #4,799 |
| 2002 | 25 | #4,763 |
| 2001 | 22 | #5,169 |
| 2000 | 19 | #5,700 |
| 1999 | 26 | #4,309 |
| 1998 | 35 | #3,423 |
| 1997 | 41 | #2,931 |
| 1996 | 45 | #2,710 |
| 1995 | 81 | #1,772 |
| 1994 | 30 | #3,610 |
Nicknames for Mileena
- Mila 1,124 girls in the UK in 2025
Names like Mileena
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Amira, Milana, Mila, Malaya, Alaya, Zahara, Zamira, Safa, Mira, Kaliyah, Mckenna, Amoura
Names related to Mileena
More Slavic names
Milan, Vera, Nadia, Rayna, Zora, Raina, Damir, Lev, Siyana, Vlad, Lilyana, Yuri, Milah, Raisa, Kalina, Vladimir
Sources
Figures from 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, “Mileena: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/mileena, updated 20 October 2026.