Milana
given name · Latin script
Meaning: forma feminina de Milano
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mɪɫænə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Milana is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country. In Zimbabwe it is the 45th most common given name.
- RSSerbia≈1 in 1.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 65K
- RURussia≈1 in 1.4Kas Милана
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Milana itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 166 (measured from records)
- 1 in 814 (inferred from the name graph)
≈100,000 named Милана, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Latvia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Милана in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, ZW Zimbabwe.
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)
forma feminina de Milano
Sources 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Milana, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Milana 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | #134 | ≈100,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | #59 | Милана | 166 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | #273 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | 23K | Милана | 39 |
| PL Poland | — | 8,562 | 1 in 4.5K | 8.6K | Milana | 22 |
| US United States | — | 5,092 | 1 in 65K | 5.1K | Milana | 99 |
| RS Serbia | #201 | ≈4,800 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | listed | Milana | 47 |
| LV Latvia | — | 2,311 | 1 in 814 | 2.3K | Milana | 10 |
| MD Moldova | — | 2,047 | 1 in 1.6K | 2K | — | 6 |
| ZW Zimbabwe | #45 | — | — | — | Милана | 1 |
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: Bureau of National Statistics — birth registrations; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup); e-services.md — living population register. 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)
Milana 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.
union; meeting; contract
as a nameThe Penguin book of Hindu names for boys
In Catalan, eagle ray (Myliobatis aquila)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Basque, Mil cada uno. v. MILA BANA. Badakit hauek biek orduko milana libera igorri zautatela ere nihauri eskola hastean. Larre ArtzainE 230. Millana metro belar ebaki. Albeniz 158.
as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia
In Latvian, Sievietes vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Sidnie Mantonb. 1902GBnot in their usual nameBritish zoologist (1902-1979)
- Milana Terloevab. 1979RUFrench-speaking Chechen writer
- Milana Riccib. 1983UAUkrainian pornstar
- Milana Vayntrubb. 1987USAmerican actress
- Milana Dudievab. 1989RURussian mixed martial artist (born 1989)
- Milana Živadinovićb. 1991RSSerbian basketball player (born 1991)
- Lana Royb. 1997RUnot in their usual nameRussian pornographic actress
- Milana Tazhenovab. 1999RURussian handball player
- Milana Khametovab. 2010RURussian singer
- Milana IkemotoJPactress
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)
Attested in 87 sources across 40 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 8.6K | #204 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 8.6K | #204 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 5.1K | #3,862 |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 2.3K | #235 |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 2.3K | — |
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 2K | #265 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 336 | — |
| PL Poland | Ministry of Digitalization — Imiona nadawane dzieciom w Polsce (2000–present) | 2025 | 228 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 12 | #3,862 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4 | #18,032 |
Reference works 4
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
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
- How do you pronounce Milana?
- A machine transcription gives /mɪɫænə/ (IPA) for Russian.
- Is Milana a male or female name?
- Milana is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Milana mean, and where does it come from?
- forma feminina de Milano Recorded by Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
- What are other forms of the name Milana?
- In the etymology graph, Milena, Mila and Milka are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Milana have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 103 thousand people named Милана in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Milana most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Milana is densest in Latvia — about 1 in 814 people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Milana?
- In Poland, the national register counted 8,562 people named Milana in 2026, about 1 in 4.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Milana compared with other names?
- In Russia, Milana is the 134th most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Milana?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/milanaThe 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, “Milana” — the 134th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.