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Mila vs Milliana

American parents have registered 84,577 Milas since 1880, against 695 Millianas. Mila is still ahead, with 4,802 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Mila Milliana

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 2009, when Mila had 667 and Milliana had 23.

Side by side

  Mila Milliana
Total US births 84,577695
Most in one year 8,17463
Babies in 2025 4,80254
Estimated living today 83,000690
Median age today 66
Peak year 20182024
Best rank 14th girls2,722nd girls
Rank in 2025 43rd3,028th
First recorded 18812006
Girls / boys 84,489 / 88695 / 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.

Where each one is strongest

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

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Mila Milliana
France 32,40520
England and Wales 12,38712

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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