Given name & surname
Mile
Mile is a masculine given name from Macedonian. It is used in English, Serbo-Croatian, and Walloon.
Meaning & origin
How it developed
In Serbo-Croatian usage, Mile is an affectionate form of MILIVOJ.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1927. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Mile through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 15
- 15 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1927
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
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- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 1978. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 758 as a first name in 2020; 336 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Mile’s family of names
In Serbo-Croatian usage, Mile is an affectionate form of MILIVOJ. In Walloon usage, Mile has a related form in Emile. In Macedonian usage, Mile is a Roman-alphabet rendering of Миле.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Mile has relatives in 4 languages. Lines run from its Macedonian roots to each of them.
Macedonianwhere Mile comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 4
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 5
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Mile
- Mile JedinakAustralian association football playerborn 1984
- Mile SvilarSerbian association football playerborn 1999
- Mile SterjovskiAustralian association football playerborn 1979
- Mile BudakCroatian Ustaše politician; writer, editor (1889-1945)
- Mile IsakovićSerbian handball playerborn 1958
- Mile IlićSerbian basketball playerborn 1984
- Mile BogovićCroatian Roman Catholic prelate (1939–2020)
- Mile Dedakovićsoldierborn 1951
- Mile SavkovićSerbian footballerborn 1992
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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