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Mildred

Pronounced /ˈmɪldɹəd/

Rank in 2024
#2,095
Born in 2024
91
Peak year
1920 · #6
Origin
Old English
Also recorded for boys:0 in 2024

1880 to 2024

Uncommon
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 91 girls were named Mildred, about 1 in every 17,727.
  • It peaked in 1920 with 18,060 babies, ranked #6.
  • It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
  • 451,312 girls have been named Mildred since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Mildred per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

  1. 13.8
    Greatest
  2. 5.1
    Silent
  3. 0.9
    Boomers
  4. 0.2
    Gen X
  5. <0.1
    Millennials
  6. <0.1
    Gen Z
  7. <0.1
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 282,619 babies, 13.81 per 1,000. Silent: 105,140 babies, 5.09 per 1,000. Boomers: 33,935 babies, 0.95 per 1,000. Gen X: 5,923 babies, 0.23 per 1,000. Millennials: 1,880 babies, 0.07 per 1,000. Gen Z: 1,222 babies, 0.04 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 1,082 babies, 0.05 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

From the name of an 8th-century English saint, Old English Mildþrȳþ (from milde (“mild”) +‎ þrȳþ (“strength”)).

  • A female given name from Old English.
Origin
Old English
Say it
/ˈmɪldɹəd/

From Wiktionary’s entry for Mildred, CC BY-SA 4.0.