Smilja (Serbian: Смиља) is a South Slavic feminine given name. It is both Serbian and Croatian. Amongst Croatia, it is most prevalent in North-West Croatia. Smilja comes from the name of a plant, smilje, of the species Helichrysum arenarium. The -a ending is a common feminine ending in Slavic languages. A common diminutive form is Smiljka.
Notable people with the name include:
Smilja Avramov (1918–2018), Serbian legal scholar and activist Smilja Marjanović-Dušanić (born 1963), Serbian historian Smilja Mučibabić (1912–2006), Bosnian Serb biologist Smilja Tišma (born c. 1929), Serbian politician Smilja Vujosevic (1935–2016), Canadian chess player of Serbian origin
See also
Smiljan (given name)
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