Milan

Popularity, 1880–2025

girls named Milan boys named Milan

Girls and boys called Milan

years more girls than boys years more boys than girls

Milan crossed from girls to boys in 2013, having already crossed in 2002, and has stayed there for 13 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 80% boys, which is roughly where it still is.

The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 114 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.

By the numbers

Total US births

28,165

Estimated living today

25,000

Median age today

9

Peak year

2024

Best rank

231st

Rank in 2025

242nd

First recorded

1885

Girls / boys

9,557 / 18,608

How old the living Milans are

born that year still alive today

Of the 28,165 babies given the name since 1885, about 25,000 are alive — 90 in every hundred. Roughly 20,000 of them are children and 720 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2016 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where the name comes from

Melan, etc., from Old English Mæġelan, Megelan, Mediolana burg, etc. As American settlements, typically after the Italian city.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Milans

• Milan Kundera (1929–2023)Franco-Czechoslovak poet and novelist
• Milan Baroš (born 1981)Czech association football player
• Milan Kučan (born 1941)First President of Slovenia
• Milan Škriniar (born 1995)Slovak association football player
• Milan Badelj (born 1989)Croatian association football player
• Milan Rastislav Štefánik (1880–1919)Slovak politician, diplomat, French Army general and astronomer
• Milan I Obrenović (1854–1901)king of Serbia
• Milan Jovanović (born 1981)Serbian association football player

People named Milan with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Milan is most common

• CA3,556
• FL2,381
• NY2,145
• TX2,102
• PA1,500
• IL1,407
• OH1,178
• NJ1,082
• GA946
• MD728

Relative to how many babies each state records, Milan is most concentrated in Florida (3.0×), Nevada (2.2×), Maryland (2.1×), Arizona (1.7×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2024

The most popular boys’ names the year Milan peaked:

• Liam
• Noah
• Oliver
• Theodore
• James
• Henry

All the names of 2024

Milan elsewhere

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Milan: births by region

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

By canton, Milan is most concentrated in Basel-Stadt, where 0.12% of children were given it – 44 of them.

Milan: rank by region

In 2025, Milan was given 5 times or more in 3 regions of Belgium. It has come first somewhere in 4 different years.

In 2025, Milan was given 2 times or more in 16 regions of Poland.

In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Milan appears in the lists for Province of Flemish Brabant (25th), Province of East Flanders (44th), Province of Antwerp (45th), Province of Limburg (64th), Brussels-Capital Region (68th), Province of Liège (71st), Province of West Flanders (95th) and Province of Hainaut (117th).

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Milan by city

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Milan among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Where Milan lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 1,717 men called Milan were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Men: the provinces where it is densest

Listed in 42 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 10 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Related names

• Mildred
• Miles
• Milton
• Mila
• Millie
• Milo
• Millard
• Miley
• Miller
• Millicent
• Milani
• Milagros

Milan against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

• Milan vs Mildred
• Milan vs Miles
• Milan vs Milton
• Milan vs Mila
• Milan vs Millie
• Milan vs Milo

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