Milka
Feminine · “queen”
Melekh is the Semitic word for king and it is scattered across the ancient Near East. Hebrew melekh, Arabic malik, Phoenician molek — and Moloch, the god whose name the Bible spits, is simply the word for king with different vowels. Milcah is its feminine.
How old is the name Milka?
Milka first appears in US birth records in 1960 — 65 years ago. The typical Milka alive today was born around 2005, making them about 20 years old. About 500 people named Milka are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Milka most popular?
Milka peaked in 2001, reaching #4834 nationally. Today it ranks #11932, 7,098 places below that high. See the whole 2001 chart.
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Where it comes from
From melekh to Milka
The story of Milka
Melekh is one of the most widely shared words in the Semitic languages and it turns up everywhere. Malik is the Arabic. Melchizedek is my king is righteous. Abimelech is my father is king. And Moloch, the god associated in the Hebrew Bible with child sacrifice, is very likely the same word with the vowels of a word meaning shame deliberately substituted by scribes who did not want to say the name properly — a device used more than once in the text. Milcah is the plain feminine, and she is one of the named women of Genesis, listed with her family in a genealogy that also produces Rebecca.
Meaning
queen
Hebrew Milcah, from melekh, king, giving a feminine form meaning queen. She appears in Genesis as Abraham's niece and the grandmother of Rebecca. A separate Slavic Milka, a diminutive of names built on mil, dear, reaches the same spelling from a different direction.
How the name formed
- melekh
- Milcah
- Milka
Related forms: Milka · Milka
Pronouncing Milka
MEEL-kah
Two syllables, stress on the first. Hebrew puts the weight at the end, meel-KAH. In Slavic families the first vowel is shorter, MIL-kah.
Nicknames for Milka
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1960
- Most girls named
- 200124 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #4834reached in 2001
- Change vs 2024
- 0.0%7 in 2025, from 7
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Milka in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Milka in Hebrew — same name
- Milka in Serbian — related form
Milkas among us
people named Milka are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 229,610 born in 2025 was named Milka
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Milka
- #11932
- Milka on the 2025 chart
- #946
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Milka went to 7 girls in 2025, but Milcah is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 14, which makes it the 946th most-given girls’ name of the year — 10,986 places above the chart.
- Milcah7
- Milka7
About 1 girl in 114,805 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 229,610 for Milka itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Belem test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Milka's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Belem climbed just as high around 1951, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Belem's path sketches the road Milka is walking now.
Milka sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Milka beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Milka in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled Semitic meaning traceable across four ancient languages.
- Five letters and two syllables, with nothing hard in either.
- It is a real name in both Hebrew and Slavic tradition, which is unusual.
- It is a very well known European chocolate brand, and that will be the first association for many people.
- The stress differs between Hebrew and Slavic use, so two sayings are current.
- Milca, Mylka and Milkah are all recorded, so the spelling will be given.
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Frequently asked
- How many Milkas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 500 people named Milka are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Milka?
- Milka is one of 2 recorded spellings. Milcah is the more common one — 7 births in 2025 against 7 for Milka.
- How popular is the name Milka in 2025?
- Milka ranks #11932 among US girl names in 2025, with 7 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Milka?
- About 1 in every 229,610 US girls born in 2025 was named Milka — 7 in all.
- Will my child share the name Milka with classmates?
- Milka will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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