Milan originated from the Slavic element ‘milu’ meaning ‘gracious, dear’, originally a short form of names that began with that element like Milena.
Milan is a name for all genders, somewhat more commonly used for boys.
The name Milan is not currently one of the fashionable names trending in the top 10 rankings, but it is still popular and common. Recently, it has consistently ranked among the top 1,000 most popular first names in the United States. It is currently #662 in the SmartGenius ranking. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Milan.
Milan originated from the Slavic element ‘milu’ meaning ‘gracious, dear’, originally a short form of names that began with that element like Milena.
The meaning of ... this name has nothing to do with the Italian city of the same name. Its origin is unknown.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter M is a particularly popular initial letter for first names – 7.4% of all common given names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for given names are A and J.
With five letters, the name Milan is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 6.3% of all first names that begin with an M, this first letter is much more common than the other letters on average.
If your name is Milan and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Milan, you can simply say:
Mouse
Igloo
Lion
Apple
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Milan
Milan
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
M
I
L
A
N
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
M
I
L
A
N
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Milan sounds like this:
