Milana
- Gender
- Female
- Meaning
- Precious One
- Origin
- English
About the Name Milana
Milana is a melodic name with Slavic roots, built on the element mil, "dear" or "gracious," and popularly read as "precious one." It also evokes the Italian city of Milan, lending it a cosmopolitan, fashion-forward glamour, and its flowing vowels place it squarely among today's most fashionable internationally flavored girl names — a name that feels at once tender in meaning and chic in sound.
That blend of softness and style carried it onto the American charts in the 2010s, riding the wave of love for Mila and its longer cousins. Milana first entered the US Social Security top-1000 in 2012, peaked in 2015 at #678, and has stayed in the rankings since, holding #783 in 2024 after #755 the year before and #769 in 2022 — a sign of steady, lasting appeal rather than a passing fad, with the name settling comfortably into the mid-rankings.
With its smooth three-syllable cadence and the sweet nicknames Mila and Lana, Milana fits neatly alongside Mila, Milena, and Liana for parents drawn to soft, romantic, internationally flavored names. Recorded variants include Milan and Milani, related forms that share its graceful sound and continental flair — the first leaning toward the place-name itself, the second offering a breezier, more contemporary spin. Elegant and gentle, Milana balances meaning and beauty with ease.
Source: U.S. Social Security Administration name data, 1880–2024 (methodology). By Marvin Tang.
Quick Facts About Milana
US Popularity History (2012–2025)
Annual US births named Milana by gender, from US Social Security Administration records. Peak year: 2015 with 421 girls named Milana (girl rank #678 that year).
Where it stands today: in 2025, ranked #812 for girls (336 US births). That's 134 places below its 2015 peak.
Source: US Social Security Administration. Limitations: US birth-certificate data only; names appearing fewer than 5 times in a given year are suppressed for privacy; spelling variants are counted separately. For names that ranked outside the US top 100 before year 2000, only the years they reached the top 100 are shown — the chart may have gaps for less-popular historical names.
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Where in the US Is Milana Most Popular?
Average girl-name rank within each state across 2016–2025 SSA records. A lower number means the name appears closer to the top of that state's girls-name rankings — a per-capita measure that isn't biased toward large states. For Milana the strongest states are Washington, Oregon, New York.
Strongest girls-name states
| # | State | Avg rank | Births |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Washington | #274 | 246 |
| 2 | Oregon | #457 | 78 |
| 3 | New York | #530 | 311 |
| 4 | Florida | #563 | 296 |
| 5 | New Jersey | #574 | 134 |
| 6 | Massachusetts | #579 | 79 |
| 7 | Illinois | #599 | 174 |
| 8 | California | #615 | 525 |
| 9 | South Carolina | #640 | 45 |
| 10 | Minnesota | #649 | 34 |
Weakest girls-name states
| # | State | Avg rank | Births |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | North Carolina | #956 | 58 |
| 2 | Wisconsin | #848 | 23 |
| 3 | Virginia | #826 | 55 |
| 4 | Maryland | #821 | 26 |
| 5 | Georgia | #815 | 36 |
| 6 | Colorado | #782 | 42 |
| 7 | Missouri | #757 | 23 |
| 8 | Michigan | #743 | 68 |
| 9 | Ohio | #708 | 89 |
| 10 | Pennsylvania | #670 | 144 |
Source: SSA state-level baby-name dataset 2016–2025. States with fewer than 3 years of data for Milana in this window are excluded. Births < 5 in a given state-year are suppressed by SSA for privacy.
Variant Forms
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Compare Milana to Other Popular Names
Side-by-side popularity charts and crossover years for Milana against today's most popular girls-name peers (top 8 by US births in the last 10 years of SSA records).