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Miladin m SerbianFrom the Slavic element milu meaning "gracious, dear".
Milaiai m Biblical"Eloquent", a Levitical musician (Neh 12:36) who took part in the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem.
Milausha f Tatar, BashkirMeans "violet (flower)" in Tatar and Bashkir, ultimately derived from Persian بنفشه
(banafsheh).
Milay f MalagasyThe meaning of the name Milay is need in English but it also means love and beauty in all the feminine ways.
Milcom m Biblical, Near Eastern Mythology, English (Puritan)In the Old Testament, Milcom was the highest of the Ammonite gods. It is generally accepted that this name is a form of the common Semitic noun meaning "king" (Hebrew
melek), and became an epithet of the head of the Ammonite pantheon... [
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Mildinberg m IcelandicIcelandic name with the combination of
mildr "mild" and
bjǫrg "help, deliverance" and
borg "stronghold, fortification, castle".
Mildrun f Norwegian (Rare)Combination of the Old Norse name elements
mildr "mild" and
rún "secret lore". The name was first used in the early 20th century.
Miłek m PolishDiminutive form of names containing the name element
mił.
Miles m History (Ecclesiastical)Miles was was the bishop of Susa in Sasanian Persia from before 315 until his martyrdom in 340 or 341. He engaged in efforts to evangelize Susa, traveled widely in the Eastern Roman Empire and led the opposition to Papa bar ʿAggai and the supremacy of the bishops of Seleucia-Ctesiphon in the Persian church... [
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Miletus m Greek MythologyPossibly related to Ancient Greek
μίλτος (
miltos) meaning "red earth". This was the name of a figure in Greek mythology who, according to legend, founded the Greek city of Miletus... [
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Mili f Hebrew (Modern)Means "who for me?" (combination of the word
mi which means "who" and the name
Li 2) and came from the phrase "?אם אין אני לי, מי לי" which means "If I'm not for myself, who will be for me?"... [
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Miliah f HebrewMiliah is a form of the Hebrew and Indian Malka.
Milija m & f SerbianFrom the Slavic element
milu meaning "gracious, dear".
Mililani f HawaiianMeans "heavenly caress", from Hawaiian
mili "caress" and
lani "heaven, sky".
Miling f ChineseFrom the Chinese
宓 (mì) meaning "quiet, silent, in good health" and
灵 (líng) meaning "spirit, soul".
Militza f BulgarianVariant transcription of
Милица (see
Militsa). This was the name Duchess Jutta of Mecklenburg-Strelitz took after her marriage to the heir apparent of Montenegro Prince Danilo and her conversion to Orthodoxy.
Millacatl m NahuatlMeans "field worker, farmer" or "rural inhabitant" in Nahuatl, from
milli "cultivated field, cornfield" and either
tlacatl "person, human" or the suffix
-catl "inhabitant".
Millarca f LiteratureInvented by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu in his Gothic novella
Carmilla (1872), in which the title character, a vampire, uses this and other anagrams of her name (including
Mircalla) as aliases when she relocates.
Millennia f GermanThe name Millennia is derived from the Latin word
millennium. It was given to some German girls around the millennium year 2000.
Millennium f & m EnglishFrom the word referring to a period of time spanning a thousand years, from a Latin combination of
mīlle meaning "thousand" and
annus meaning "year" (with a>e vowel change and addition of abstract noun suffix
-ium).
Milli m NahuatlMeans "cultivated field, cornfield" in Nahuatl.
Milli m Icelandic, SwedishPossibly a variant form of Millan, or from the Icelandic milli- meaning 'in between' or 'middle'.
Milliaq m GreenlandicGreenlandic name meaning "umbilical cord". Alternatively it could mean "a piece of skin or cloth placed under food, mat, dish", or it could be a 'Greenlandic shaman's language name' meaning "an older brother to a girl".
Millvina f English (Rare)Possibly a variant of
Melvina. This name was most famously used by Millvina Dean (1912-2009) the last survivor of the Titanic before she died in 2009... [
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Miłobor m PolishDerived from Slavic
mil "gracious, dear" combined with Slavic
bor "battle" or
borit "to fight".
Milodarka f Serbian (Rare)Derived from the Slavic elements
mil, meaning "dear, precious" and
dar, meaning "gift" or "given".
Milojka f SloveneDiminutive of names containing the Slavic element
milu "gracious, dear", used as a given name in its own right.
Milolika f Russian, LiteratureArtificially created name, used by Russian poets and writers in XVIII and XIX centuries. It derives from Russian words
милый (
mily) - "loveable","pleasant" and
лик (
lik) - "face" and means "she who has loveable face".
Miłość f PolishPolish name derived from the ordinary vocabulary word
miłość "love", first used to translate the Greek name
Agape or the Latin name
Caritas... [
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Milosija f SerbianFrom Slavic elements
mio meaning "charming" or "pleasant" and
sija deriving from the verb
sijati meaning "to shine". Hence the name means "one that shines charmingly/pleasantly".
Milot m Albanian, KosovarDerived from
Milot, a town and a former municipality in the Lezhë County of northwestern Albania.
Milota f SlovakPossibly derived from the Slavic name element
milu "gracious, dear".
Milouska f Dutch (Rare)Dutch form of
Miluška. A notable bearer of this name is the Dutch television presenter Milouska Meulens (b. 1973), who is of Curaçaoan descent.
Milovana f Medieval SlavicDerived from the elements "mil-" (dear, beloved) and "-ovana" (a suffix implying care or nurturing).
Miłowit m Medieval PolishFrom the elements
miło "nice" and
wit "lord, ruler". This is among the earliest recorded names in Poland.
Miluna f Italian (Modern), VenetianFrom the Italian words
mia luna literally meaning "my moon". According to a Venetian legend the 1600s nobleman Vittore Calergi proposed to his love interest with these words (meant "my sweetness, my dear") and a beautiful diamond later renamed Miluna... [
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