Given name
Milja
Milja is a feminine given name from Latin. It is used in Finnish, Estonian, and Faroese.
Original LatinAemilia
Meaning & origin
How it developed
In Estonian usage, Milja developed from Aemilia.
Milja’s family of names
In Estonian usage, Milja developed from the Latin form Aemilia.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
See also 2
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Milja
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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