Comments for the name Milan

A famous bearer of this name (in ex-Yugoslavian countries) is Milan Mladenovich from the rock band "Ekatarina Velika".

Famous bearer: Milan Kundera, Frano-Czech novelist. His works include "The Unbearable Lightness of Being"; "The Joke"; and "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting" among others.

Another famous bearer: Milan Baros, a Czech football (soccer) player.

Milan is the German name for a raptor; milvus milvus in Latin or kite in English. There are red and black kites.

It was my father's name. This is why I was named Milena, because my name is the feminine form of my father's.

Name is also prevalent in Macedonia (Macedonian).

Milan Fras is a singer for Laibach, a musical group from Slovenia.

Milan strikes me as a female name. Maybe it's because all the Milans I know are girls.

Milan can never be a unisex name because its of male gender. A female version is Milena or Milana. The male version is never used for a girl unless you are a non-Slav and you don't know how our names work. To a foreigner it might sound as a girls name - I honestly don't see how - but to a Slav it never would. Anyway, a beautiful name in my opinion and its female counterpart.

I would love to name a future son after my favorite city and football (soccer) team AC Milan. His full name would be Massimiliano though.

Milan can be a male name on the Indian sub-continent. In that instance it is pronounced to rhyme with Dylan.

Famous bearers:
Singer Milan Chladil
Actor Milan Lasica
Writer/Politician Milan Uhde
Actor Milan Bahul

Milan Hejduk is a Czech-born hockey player who plays right wing for the Colorado Avalanche.

Milan is also a very common Indian name, used in many Indian states. The meaning of Milan in Hindi is unification or a meeting or a gathering of people.

Journalist Filip Kanda and Martha Elena Coutin Caicedo have a son Milan Felipe Kanda.

I have been thinking about this name lately and whilst I'm not into geographical names I think this would be quite lovely on a girl. Pronounced Mill-ahn. There would be some nice nickname's too, Milly or Lahny.

Famous bearer: Lt. Col Milan Horký, character from the TV crime show "Mesto tieňov". He played by Ivan Romančík.

Milan is a beautiful name, I believe it should be categorized as a UNISEX name because it's commonly used as a girl name, maybe more so than as a male name.

I like this name. It is very cool and interesting but I see it as a girl name not a boys.

Milan Lucic is a hockey player who currently plays left wing for the Boston Bruins.

It's a gorgeous name but please don't use it on a girl. That's not trendy, it's really against its Slavic origin which makes it sounds so ridiculous for anybody who has Slavic background or speaks a Slavic language!

It is a male name. NOT A GIRL'S NAME. Name Milan sounds stupid to us Slavs when it's used for girls.

Milan Stanković / Милан Станковић is a Serbian singer. He entered Eurovision 2010 and came 13th with his song "Ovo je Balkan" / "Ово је Балкан".

I adore this name, correctly pronounced (MEE-lan), and I'd quite happily use it. It's lovely and masculine.

This name sounds nice on a boy as long as he's of Slavic heritage. On a girl, Milan sounds ridiculous and strange. Mila or Milena would be better for a girl.

Reminds me of that quote from The Incredibles: 'Milan, darling, Milan'.

It's a strictly boys name. Means literally "he who is dear" pronounced (me lahn).
Only in ignorant cultureless countries would it be used for any other gender.

Diminutive version of the name in Czech is "Milanek" and in Russian it would sound like "Milanchik".

Milan Baroš is a Czech-born football player who currently plays for Galatasaray S.K. (Turkish football team).

Can be pronounced simply 'mil-an'. Rhyming with 'villain'.

I think the feminine name Milan which is used in the USA could come from the name of the Italian city Milan rather than the Slavic masculine name.

Shakira, the famous Colombian singer, named her first son Milan.