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Milia

Gender
Girl
Say it
MIL-ee-a
Origin
Latin
US rank, 2025
#10,913 for girls

Milia is a girls' name of Latin origin. In 2025 it ranked 10,913th for girls in the US (8 babies).

Where does Milia come from?

Latin: short form of Emilia or Camilla

Is Milia a girl's or a boy's name?

Milia is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 8 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Milia 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.

2014Busiest: 6 in 20242024
Milia in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20246#3,758
20233#5,929
20220–
20211#7,491
20200–
20190–
20185#4,204
20170–
20160–
20150–
20143#5,920

How popular is Milia in the US?

Rank in 2025
#10,913among girls
Babies in 2025
8about 1 in 200,000 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, 8 girls in the US were named Milia, making it the 10,913th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,948th. Its busiest year was 2014, with 20 girls. It first appears in the records in 1956.

Half of all the girls named Milia in the US since 1880 were born between 2006 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.

1956Busiest: 20 in 20142025
Milia in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20258#10,913
202411#8,941
202318#6,404
202213#8,027
20218#11,141
202011#8,948
201913#8,134
201811#9,146
201715#7,438
20168#11,776
201514#8,004
201420#6,205
201312#9,031
20129#11,251
20119#11,175
20106#14,953
200913#8,884
200811#10,080
20079#11,626
200610#10,606
200510#10,123
20040–
20035#15,777
20029#10,240
20015#15,345
20006#13,147
19996#12,681
19988#10,116
19970–
19966#11,801
19950–
19940–
19930–
19920–
19916#11,501
19900–
19890–
19880–
19875#11,320
19860–
19850–
19840–
19830–
19820–
19810–
19800–
19790–
19780–
19770–
19760–
19750–
19740–
19730–
19720–
19710–
19700–
19690–
19680–
19670–
19660–
19650–
19640–
19630–
19620–
19610–
19600–
19590–
19580–
19570–
19565#5,951

Nicknames for Milia

Names like Milia

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

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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, “Milia: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/milia, updated 20 October 2026.