Given name
Milada
“my daughter is my love”
Milada is used as a given name. One Slavic interpretation is “my daughter is my love.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Slavic interpretation is “my daughter is my love.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Slavic.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1916. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Milada through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 42
- 0 boys · 42 girls
- Most popular year
- 1917
- 8 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 2021. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 208 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Milada’s family of names
In Slovak usage, Milada has a diminutive in Milka. Milada has a related form in Milena. In Czech usage, Milada has a diminutive in Lada.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Milada has relatives in 3 languages. Lines run from its Proto-Slavic roots to each of them.
6 related names in 3 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 9
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Milenavariant
- Milkadiminutive · Slovak, Czech
- Ladadiminutive · Czech
- Míladiminutive · Czech
- Miladkadiminutive · Czech, Slovak
- Milladavariant
- Miladdavariant
- Miladahvariant
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Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Milada
- Milada HorákováCzechoslovak politician and resistance fighter (1901-1950)
- Milada SkrbkováCzech tennis player (1897–1935)
- Milada BlažkováCzech field hockey playerborn 1958
- Milada KarbanováCzechoslovak Olympic athlete and high jumperborn 1948
- Milada BlekastadNorwegian translator and writer (1917–2003)
- Milada SoučkováCzech writer, poet, literary theorist and bookwriter (1899-1983)
- Milada EmmerováCzech doctor and politicianborn 1944
- Milada PaulováCzech historian and university educator (1891-1970)
- Milada SpalováCzech volleyballistborn 1979
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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