Milla

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Milla: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Milla: Recorded since 1987, it reached #49 in 2009, and it stood at #284 in 2025.

4registrars recorded it
72times a registrar ranked it
39years from first to last
#49highest recorded position
22groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1997–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1997	#3824
1998	#3848
1999	#2189
2000	#1688
2001	#1728
2002	#1151
2003	#965
2004	#1617
2005	#1082
2006	#928
2007	#774
2008	#859
2009	#835
2010	#830
2011	#915
2012	#654
2013	#1098
2014	#1016
2015	#1139
2016	#1278
2017	#1184
2018	#1343
2019	#1782
2020	#1352
2021	#1224
2022	#1685
2023	#1774
2024	#2411

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Norway in 32 of the 39 years from 1987 to 2025.

In 2024: #245 among girls in Norway, #898 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #2411 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1987–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1987
First recorded at #666 among girls in Norway in 1987 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Girls
Highest recorded1987–2025
Highest recorded position: #49 among girls in Norway, in 2009 (recorded 1987–2025).
Norway · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #284 among girls in Norway, in 2025.
Norway · Girls

Milla appears in 4 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Girls, which has ranked it in 32 years beginning in 1987, and has registered 1,315 births with the name.

Milla across 4 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Milla's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Norway · Girls	#666 (1987)	#49 (2009)	#284 (2025)	32 of 39	1,315 (1987–2025)	133 (2009)
England and Wales · Girls	#3824 (1997)	#654 (2012)	#2411 (2024)	28 of 28	695 (1997–2024)	63 (2012)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#550 (2006)	#550 (2006)	#898 (2024)	10 of 19	34 (2006–2024)	5 (2006)
New South Wales, Australia · Girls	#84 (2011)	#84 (2011)	#98 (2012)	2 of 2	160 (2011–2012)	85 (2011)

Milla by decade in Norway · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Milla in Norway · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1980s	4	1 of 10	4
1990s	30	5 of 10	6
2000s	493	10 of 10	49
2010sbusiest	657	10 of 10	66
2020s	131	6 of 10	22

Across Norway · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 66 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2007 and 2008, when recorded births rose by 72, from 48 to 120.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Milla appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1987 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #49 in Norway in 2009.

Milla's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#2411	11	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1774	16	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1685	17	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1224	27	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1352	23	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1782	16	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1343	24	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1184	29	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1278	26	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1139	30	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1016	35	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1098	32	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#654	63	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#915	39	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#830	43	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#835	41	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#859	38	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#774	42	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#928	31	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1082	23	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1617	13	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#965	25	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1151	18	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1728	10	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#1688	10	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#2189	7	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#3848	3	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#3824	3	High	Verified
2012	New South Wales, Australia	female	#98	75	Insufficient	Not yet available
2011	New South Wales, Australia	female	#84	85	Insufficient	Not yet available
2025	Norway	female	#284	14	High	Verified
2024	Norway	female	#245	17	High	Verified
2023	Norway	female	#203	23	High	Verified
2022	Norway	female	#176	26	High	Verified
2021	Norway	female	#176	25	High	Verified
2020	Norway	female	#181	26	High	Verified
2019	Norway	female	#177	30	High	Verified
2018	Norway	female	#113	51	High	Verified
2017	Norway	female	#120	50	High	Verified
2016	Norway	female	#105	61	High	Verified
2015	Norway	female	#89	75	High	Verified
2014	Norway	female	#89	71	High	Verified
2013	Norway	female	#99	66	High	Verified
2012	Norway	female	#83	78	High	Verified
2011	Norway	female	#85	79	High	Verified
2010	Norway	female	#72	96	High	Verified
2009	Norway	female	#49	133	High	Verified
2008	Norway	female	#50	120	High	Verified
2007	Norway	female	#135	48	High	Verified
2006	Norway	female	#178	36	High	Verified
2005	Norway	female	#138	44	High	Verified
2004	Norway	female	#149	39	High	Verified
2003	Norway	female	#198	27	High	Verified
2002	Norway	female	#236	20	High	Verified
2001	Norway	female	#292	14	High	Verified
2000	Norway	female	#335	12	High	Verified
1999	Norway	female	#410	9	High	Verified
1998	Norway	female	#566	5	High	Verified
1997	Norway	female	#620	4	High	Verified
1994	Norway	female	#532	6	High	Verified
1992	Norway	female	#562	6	High	Verified
1987	Norway	female	#666	4	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#898	3	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#905	3	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#883	3	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#834	3	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#871	3	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#896	3	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#747	4	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#798	4	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	female	#842	3	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	female	#550	5	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
New South Wales, Australia hub — collected by NSW Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1987 and 2025, ranked in 32 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #49, first reached in 2009.

It held a top-100 place in 8 years, 8 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 133 births, registered in Norway in 2009.

Its record falls into 4 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 4 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1997, and 24 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Milian · #115, 18y
Milita · #440, 14y
Millan · #1629, 26y
Millar · #433, 16y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Jenson · #48, 30y
Joe · #48, 36y
Gracie · #51, 30y
Trinity · #47, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1980s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1980 and 1989.

Alana · #49, 46y
Alannah · #49, 42y
Linus · #49, 34y
Ariana · #50, 34y

Milla was ranked #49 in Norway · Girls in 2009. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Milla and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Milla without appearing here.

Milla moved ahead of

Cecilie Compare
In 2001 they stood at #3848 and #3848 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2002 that had become #1151 and #4137.
Francis Compare
In 2004 they stood at #3824 and #3174 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2005 that had become #1082 and #3970.
Ronny Compare
In 1999 they stood at #3848 and #3848 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2000 that had become #1688 and #3912.
Karin Compare
In 2001 they stood at #1728 and #1728 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2002 that had become #1151 and #2868.

Moved ahead of Milla

Fiadh Compare
In 2018 they stood at #1343 and #1436 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #1782 and #1063.
Noah Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1774 and #3218 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #2411 and #1743.
Linda Compare
In 2006 they stood at #550 and #764 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2007 that had become #842 and #286.
Meabh Compare
In 2021 they stood at #1224 and #1286 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #1685 and #1142.

Moved the opposite way to Milla

Anita Compare
Between 1987 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Milla went from #666 to #284 while Anita went from #59 to #459.
Anne Compare
Between 1987 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Milla went from #666 to #284 while Anne went from #8 to #159.
Bjørg Compare
Between 1987 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Milla went from #666 to #284 while Bjørg went from #239 to #369.
Camilla Compare
Between 1987 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Milla went from #666 to #284 while Camilla went from #4 to #279.

Moved the same way as Milla

Ada Compare
Between 1987 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Milla went from #666 to #284 and Ada from #444 to #18.
Alma Compare
Between 1987 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Milla went from #666 to #284 and Alma from #514 to #8.
Amalie Compare
Between 1987 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Milla went from #666 to #284 and Amalie from #383 to #25.
Amanda Compare
Between 1987 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Milla went from #666 to #284 and Amanda from #292 to #52.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1987 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #49 in Norway in 2009. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Milla

Milla at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Milla across 4 official records

Milla by decade in Norway · Girls

Milla appears in

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Milla at a glance

Milla across 4 official records

Milla by decade in Norway · Girls

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Also first recorded in the 1980s

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Milla moved ahead of

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