Given name
Milica
Milica is a feminine given name. It is used in Serbo-Croatian and Slovak.
Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Milica isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1956. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Milica through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 410
- 0 boys · 410 girls
- Most popular year
- 2011
- 17 babies
- 2025
- 9
- #10,645 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −25%
- Easing
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 9 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 10,645 among girls’ names. Average annual use for girls was 24.5% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for girls was 17 in 2011. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,276 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.
Milica’s family of names
In Serbian usage, Milica has a related form in Милица.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Milica
- Milla JovovichAmerican actress (born 1975)
- Milica MandićSerbian taekwondo practitionerborn 1991
- Princess Milica of MontenegroMontenegrin princess and Grand Duchess of Russia (1866-1951)
- Princess Milica of Serbiapoet (1335-1405)
- Duchess Jutta of Mecklenburg-StrelitzGerman duchess (1880–1946)
- Milica DabovićSerbian basketball playerborn 1982
- Milica Stojadinović-SrpkinjaSerbian poet (1830–1878)1828–1878
- Mir-JamSerbian writer (1887-1952)
- Milica GardaševićSerbian long jumperborn 1998
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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