Milah
#1,684 for girls in 2025, 122 births
- Peak · girls
- 2018 · 236 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,881since 1997
Milah over time
Rank among girls' names. Milah has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,684 | 122 |
| 2024 | #1,509 | 143 |
| 2023 | #1,474 | 148 |
| 2022 | #1,355 | 172 |
| 2021 | #1,175 | 208 |
| 2020 | #1,165 | 200 |
| 2019 | #1,173 | 203 |
| 2018 | #1,075 | 236 |
| 2017 | #1,104 | 228 |
| 2016 | #1,224 | 201 |
| 2015 | #1,183 | 213 |
| 2014 | #1,326 | 178 |
| 2013 | #1,446 | 155 |
| 2012 | #1,591 | 136 |
| 2011 | #2,298 | 81 |
| 2010 | #3,306 | 49 |
| 2009 | #3,619 | 44 |
| 2008 | #4,179 | 37 |
| 2007 | #6,323 | 21 |
| 2006 | #6,125 | 21 |
| 2005 | #7,891 | 14 |
| 2004 | #7,077 | 16 |
| 2003 | #13,844 | 6 |
| 2002 | #8,837 | 11 |
| 2001 | #15,352 | 5 |
| 2000 | #6,808 | 15 |
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| 1998 | #8,016 | 11 |
| 1997 | #10,836 | 7 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Milah! It came in at #10,836, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1999, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Milah is popular in 2017
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Nevada#313 · 1 in 1,204
- Massachusetts#614 · 1 in 3,150
- Oregon#663 · 1 in 2,899
- Minnesota#756 · 1 in 3,987
- New Jersey#816 · 1 in 4,496
Best ever in a state: #313 in Nevada, 2017.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nevada | #313 | 9 | 1 in 1,204 |
| Massachusetts | #614 | 8 | 1 in 3,150 |
| Oregon | #663 | 5 | 1 in 2,899 |
| Minnesota | #756 | 6 | 1 in 3,987 |
| New Jersey | #816 | 8 | 1 in 4,496 |
| California | #818 | 41 | 1 in 4,774 |
| Florida | #917 | 16 | 1 in 5,372 |
| North Carolina | #917 | 9 | 1 in 5,043 |
| Washington | #946 | 6 | 1 in 5,178 |
| Texas | #963 | 28 | 1 in 5,710 |
| Ohio | #975 | 9 | 1 in 5,753 |
| Arizona | #1,083 | 5 | 1 in 6,014 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,258 | 6 | 1 in 8,524 |
| New York | #1,590 | 8 | 1 in 11,000 |
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See more about Milah
- 175 spots since 2024 (#1,509 → #1,684)
- 519 spots since 2020 (#1,165 → #1,684)
- 501 spots since 2015 (#1,183 → #1,684)
- Debuted 1997
- Peaked 2018 at #1,075 (236 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 7,208 girls born in 2018 were named Milah (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 13,174 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 58.3% of all girls named Milah (1,680) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 18 | #8,016 (1998) | #9,426 |
| 2000s | 190 | #3,619 (2009) | #8,006 |
| 2010s | 1,680 | #1,075 (2018) | #1,573 |
| 2020s | 993 | #1,165 (2020) | #1,394 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Milah in 2017
Top girls' names in 2017
More about 2017
girls
1,726,461 girls got a published name in 2017; 1 in 7,572 of them was named Milah, which outranked 94.0% of the 18,448 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,098Wendy230
- #1,102Arden229
- #1,102Loretta229
- #1,104Milah228
- #1,104Ayva228
- #1,104Luisa228
- #1,104Marcella228
- #1,108Aliah227
- #1,108Diamond227
- #1,108Diya227
Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 263Julianne#919 → #1,182
- ↓ 243Milania#947 → #1,190
- ↓ 240Wendy#858 → #1,098
- ↓ 238Montserrat#808 → #1,046
- ↓ 224Nathaly#930 → #1,154
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.