Entry № 6838 · Serbian origin

Mileva Mileva — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ mee-LEH-vah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Serbian
Meaning
"Gracious (Mileva Marić, Einstein's first wife and physicist)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Modern (Serbian)

A name that means "gracious (mileva marić, einstein's first wife and physicist)".

Mileva is from the Slavic mil (gracious, dear). Mileva Marić (1875-1948) was the Serbian physicist and mathematician — Albert Einstein's first wife and only fellow physicist student at the Zurich Polytechnic. The only woman among six students in Einstein's section, and the second woman to complete the full mathematics and physics program at Zurich Polytechnic. The extent of her collaboration in Einstein's 1905 "miracle year" papers remains intensely debated — but Einstein gave her the entire 1921 Nobel Prize money as part of their divorce settlement.

Subject of Dord Krstić's Mileva & Albert Einstein: Their Love and Scientific Collaboration (2004).

Gracious. Einstein's first wife and only fellow physicist; her share in his 1905 'miracle year' remains debated.

The name in its native script.

Милева
Transliteration
Mileva
Pronunciation
/ mɪˈlɛv.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Mileva stands.

Mileva 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.

Milevas before her.

Real people
Mileva Marić
Serbian physicist.
1875 – 1948
In fiction
Mileva
Marie Benedict's The Other Einstein.
2016

Names connected to Mileva.

The number behind Mileva.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Mileva reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.