Entry № 6859 · Serbian origin

Mileva Mileva — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ mee-LEH-vah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Serbian
Meaning
"Gracious (Mileva Marić, Einstein's first wife and physicist)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Modern (Serbian)

A name that means "gracious (mileva marić, einstein's first wife and physicist)".

Mileva is from the Slavic mil (gracious, dear). Mileva Marić (1875-1948) was the Serbian physicist and mathematician — Albert Einstein's first wife and only fellow physicist student at the Zurich Polytechnic. The extent of her collaboration in Einstein's 1905 "miracle year" papers remains intensely debated — but Einstein gave her the entire 1921 Nobel Prize money as part of their divorce settlement.

Gracious. Einstein's first wife and only fellow physicist; her share in his 1905 'miracle year' remains debated.

The name in its native script.

Милева
Transliteration
Mileva
Pronunciation
/ mɪˈlɛv.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Mileva stands.

Mileva does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Milevas before her.

Real people
Mileva Marić
Serbian physicist.
1875 – 1948
In fiction
Mileva
Marie Benedict's The Other Einstein.
2016

Names connected to Mileva.

The number behind Mileva.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Mileva reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.