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The first name 
Milena

Milena is a female first name.

Milena is a common name for girls!

The name Milena isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Milena ranks 717. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 2 were named Milena. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Milena.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Milena

What does the name 
Milena mean?

Milena is a Slavic name and a feminine form of Milan, which means ‘gracious’ or ‘dear’. It is popular in Eastern European countries and Italy.

Actress Mila Kunis... was born Milena Markovna Kunis in the city of Chernivtsi, now Ukraine.

Milena -
keeping with the times

Milena is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Milena cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #622 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2019. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Milena, for there were many years in which not a single parent chose this first name for their daughter. Although it also has never been in the top 100 of most popular first names, Milena seems to have been in vogue for a while, especially since the beginning of the new millennium.

In years where the graph has no value, the name Milena was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

Milena in 2022 – for some parents the most beautiful name in the world

368 babies were named Milena in 2022 - that's 1 in 402,804 newborn girls. With this number, the girls' name Milena ranked 708 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.

Milena -
special, but at home in many states

You may not know anyone named Milena, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 35 states are home to women and girls named Milena. (To be fair, a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s entirely possible that there are still a few women and girls named Milena living in one state or another. If your name is Milena and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In Florida, which has the most people named Milena relative to the population, you still have to ask 10,103 women and girls their names before you hear Milena as an answer just once.

Milena has 6 letters 
and begins with an M

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter M is a quite popular first letter for girls' names. That’s because 8.5% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters A and S are more common for girls' names.

With six letters, the name Milena is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. 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.

Therefore: As 8.5% of all girls' names start with an M, this initial letter occurs nearly 2.5-times as often as all 26 letters on average – and the most common one of all the girls’ names starting with M is Mary.

Other names with 
M, i, l, e, n and a

If you take all the letters in the name Milena – M, i, l, e, n and a – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Melina or others.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Milena

If your name is Milena 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...

This is how you spell the name Milena

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Milena, you can simply say:

Mouse

Igloo

Lion

Elephant

Nut

Apple

This is how the name Milena is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Milena in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Milena

Milena

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Milena

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Milena is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

M
I
L
E
N
A

Have you ever waved the name Milena

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
E
N
A

Beeping like crazy...

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. Milena sounds like this: