Milena

Where Milena comes from

From Slavic, ultimately from Proto-Slavic *mìlъ (“dear, kind”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Milena
  • Slavic
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1896
    Milena Jesenská born
    Czech journalist, writer, editor and translator
  2. 1918
    First appearance
    #4,809 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1940
    Milena Dravić born
    Serbian actress
  4. 2019
    Peak, #675
    428 babies named Milena — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from the Slavic languages, masculine equivalent Milan.
Namesakes
  • Milena Dravić · Serbian actress, 1940–2018
  • Milena Jesenská · Czech journalist, writer, editor and translator, 1896–1944
  • Milena Miconi · Italian actress and model, born 1971
  • Milena Pavlović-Barili · Serbian artist and poet, 1909–1945
  • Milena Rudnytska · Ukrainian women's rights activist, politician and writer, 1892–1976

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.