Girl · Hebrew
Milcah
Say it: MIL-kuh
Meaning
Hebrew Milkah, usually read as 'queen'.
Likelythe main view, with some doubt.
Found occasionally in Puritan and colonial records.
Its wave through time
Rare in the records
In the United States
- 121 babies given this name since 1972
- At its height in 2019, about 1 in 167,000 girls
- 9 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Milca
| Hebrew | Milka |
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Famous bearers
- Milcah, wife of Nahor in Genesis
Names worth a look
Where this comes from
- The Hebrew Bible and the New Testament
- Puritan church and town records of England and New England
- Colonial records of the Americas
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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