In 2025, 98 US girls were named Mildred, making it the 1,973rd most common girls’ name of the year, up 120 places from #2,093 in 2024. That is 6 more than the 92 girls named Mildred in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #6, reached in 1920. That year also had the most girls given the name: 18,060. For comparison, it was #2,159 in 2015 and #135 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Mildred in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 132 babies with the name. In all, 452,998 US babies have been given the name, 99.6% of them girls and 0.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 147,624 babies named Mildred.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 937 US girls were named Mildred; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 109. In 2025 that was about 1 in 16,401 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Mildred ranked highest in Ohio in 2025, at #1,010 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Millie (46,138 babies since 1880) and Milly (3,347 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Myldred and Mildrid are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Milly.
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.