Entry № 6858 · Slavic origin

Milena Milena — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ mee-LAY-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Slavic
Meaning
"Gracious, dear"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Slavic)

A name that means "gracious, dear".

Milena is the feminine of Milan — from the Slavic mil, meaning "gracious," "dear," or "beloved." Used across Czech, Slovak, Bulgarian, Serbian, and Croatian.

Milena entered the U.S. top 1000 in 2014 and has been rising.

Beloved. The Slavic feminine of Milan.

The name in its native script.

Milena
Transliteration
Milena
Pronunciation
/ miˈleɪ.nə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Milena stands.

Milena does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Milenas before her.

Real people
Milena Jesenská
Czech journalist, translator of Kafka.
1896 – 1944
In fiction

Names connected to Milena.

The number behind Milena.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Milena reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.