Milia
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: plural of milium
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 30 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
/milja/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Milia is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- ARArgentina1 in 100K(measured from records)
- ITItaly≈1 in 26K
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 149K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 41 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 26K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,400 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)habitational name from any of various minor places so named, or in some cases from a short form of the personal name Emilio.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
How Milia is read
(measured from records)Milia is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish30%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Milia in Spanish.
- English28%
plural of milium
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Italian13%
redução coloquial de Emilia
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Variante di Emili
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
- French11%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Milia in French.
- Swahili5.5%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Milia in Swahili.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Milia 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.
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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)Milia is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
habitational name from any of various minor places so named, or in some cases from a short form of the personal name Emilio.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Swedish, Milia är ursprungligen en kortform av → Emilia. Namnet har blivit populärt som offi ciellt namn de senaste årtiondena.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In Russian, Antip, nicknamed Milia, Ignat'ev syn Sukhov. 1635.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
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)- Raimondo Miliab. 1923ITItalian politician (1923–2019)
- Luis Milia Méndezb. 1948ESSpanish politician
- Graziano Miliab. 1959ITItalian politician
- Fulvio Miliab. 1963ITItalian military personnel
- Matthew Miliab. 1985USAmerican musician
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)Evidence
(measured from records)62 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 30 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 455 | #2,196 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 399 | #24,147 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 8 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2 | #24,147 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 2015 | 2 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2012 | 2 | #4,479 |
| UY Uruguay | Montevideo Open Data — Nombres por año y sexo (1940–2012) | 2011 | 1 | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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
- Where does the name Milia come from?
- habitational name from any of various minor places so named, or in some cases from a short form of the personal name Emilio. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Milia?
- A machine transcription gives /milja/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Milia mean?
- In English, plural of milium
- In which country does Milia have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.4 thousand people named Milia in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled milia.
- How common is the name Milia?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 457 people named Milia, about 1 in 100 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/miliaThe 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, “Milia”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.