Milah
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 225 babies a year in the US.
Milah by the numbers
In 2025, 15 babies in England and Wales were named Milah. In the US, 225 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given noticeably more often in the US than in England and Wales.
Its best year in America so far is the most recent one on record, which means it was still climbing when the records end.
What we can tell you about Milah
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Milah. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Milagracious, dear1,014 in England and Wales (2025)
- Micahwho is like God3,924 in the US (2017)
- Miahwho is like God; a modern respelling of Micah342 in the US (2017)
- Mikahwho is like God; a form of Micah176 in the US (2017)
- Mirahmy lord; variant of Miriam6 in England and Wales (2025)
- Milcahqueen or counsel8 in the US (2017)
Sounds like Milah
Names that are said the same way as Milah, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
Names about as common as Milah
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