Milena is a girl's name of Portuguese origin meaning “kind.” In 2024 it was given to 358 girls in the United States.
Milena at a glance
Gender
Girl name
Origin
Portuguese · Italian
Meaning
“kind”
About the name Milena
Milena belongs to the Portuguese and Italian tradition. Its meaning — “kind” — is the sense carried by its Portuguese roots, and it is the meaning we verified against published sources for this page.
In the United States, Milena first appears in Social Security records in 1918. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #678 in 2019, and in 2024 358 babies received the name — 7,475 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.
Meaning and origin for this page were checked against this source. US popularity figures are from the Social Security Administration's public baby-names data. If you spot an error, write to [email protected] — accuracy is the whole point of this site, and corrections are made fast.