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Mila vs Miliani

American parents have registered 84,577 Milas since 1880, against 637 Milianis. Mila is still ahead, with 4,802 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Mila against Miliani, 1880 to 2025 0 2.5k 5k 7.5k 10k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Mila Miliani

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Mila has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1881 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2000, when Mila had 78 and Miliani had 10.

Side by side

  Mila Miliani
Total US births 84,577637
Most in one year 8,17437
Babies in 2025 4,80225
Estimated living today 83,000630
Median age today 611
Peak year 20182008
Best rank 14th girls4,179th girls
Rank in 2025 43rd5,099th
First recorded 18811998
Girls / boys 84,489 / 88637 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Milianis alive today are over 11; half the Milas are over 6. That is 5 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Mila and Miliani.