Míla
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a diminutive of the male given names Emil, Miloslav, or Miloš
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries
/ˈmiːla/(recorded in a dictionary) Czech · from Wiktionary
Míla is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- SISlovenia1 in 1.3K(measured from records)
- HRCroatia1 in 1.3K
- FIFinland1 in 1.4K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 65 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.3K (inferred from the name graph)
47,530 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Mila in US United States.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)a diminutive of the male given names Emil, Miloslav, or Miloš
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Míla counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 47,530 | 1 in 7K | 47K | Mila | 65 |
| BR Brazil | — | 4,718 | 1 in 45K | 4.7K | — | — |
| SE Sweden | — | 4,436 | 1 in 2.3K | 4.4K | — | 1 |
| FI Finland | — | 3,985 | 1 in 1.4K | 4.2K | — | — |
| HR Croatia | — | 3,276 | 1 in 1.3K | 4.3K | — | — |
| SI Slovenia | — | 1,632 | 1 in 1.3K | 1.8K | — | — |
| DK Denmark | — | 1,124 | 1 in 5.2K | 1.1K | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | #457 | 156 | 1 in 69K | 156 | Míla | 43 |
47,530 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); MVČR — living population register 2017; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Míla is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In phl, to argue, fight, quarrel
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In lkt, knife
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Icelandic, mile
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In nah, Abricarhazerporartiñcio
as a wordVocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Míla Koutníkováb. 1881CZCzechoslovak teacher
- Míla Mellanováb. 1899CZCzech actress, director and theater manager (1899–1964)
- Míla Preslováb. 1966CZCzech photographer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 110 | #1,292 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 55 | #1,256 |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Míla mean, and where does it come from?
- a diminutive of the male given names Emil, Miloslav, or Miloš Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Míla?
- In Czech /ˈmiːla/ (Wiktionary).
- Is Míla a male or female name?
- Míla is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Míla have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 48 thousand people named Míla, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mila.
- Where is Míla most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Míla is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 1.3 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Míla?
- In the United States, the national register counted 47,530 people named Míla in 2020, about 1 in 7.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Míla compared with other names?
- In Czechia, Míla is the 457th most common given name of 16,679 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/m%C3%ADlaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Míla” — the 457th most common given name in Czechia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.