Meaning not yet researched.
Milly: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 113 in 2025. Its best rank was #714 in 1884.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #714 in 1884; #1,790 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Milly in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,790 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1884, at #714.
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Milly: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 113 girls in 2025. Peak: #714 in 1884 · most girls in one year: 129 (2014).
In 2025, 113 US girls were named Milly, making it the 1,790th most common girls’ name of the year, up 13 places from #1,803 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 112 girls named Milly in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #714, reached in 1884. The most girls given the name in a single year was 129, in 2014. For comparison, it was #2,160 in 2015 and #3,364 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Milly in 123 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1884 with 10 babies. In all, 3,347 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,024 babies named Milly.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,100 US girls were named Milly; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 119. In 2025 that was about 1 in 14,224 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Milly ranked highest in Oklahoma in 2025, at #677 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Mildred (452,998 babies since 1880), Millie (46,138 babies since 1880), Millicent (11,825 babies since 1880) and Milla (2,136 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Meyly are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English and German. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Meyly (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Milly in the open dataset we use.
Milly is listed as a nickname for Armilda, Emeline, Melissa, Mildred, Millicent, Permelia.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 43 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oklahoma | 6 | #677 | — |
| Utah | 5 | #797 | — |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,353 | — |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,494 | — |
| New York | 7 | #1,777 | #1,902 |
| California | 10 | #2,044 | #2,270 |
| Florida | 6 | #2,068 | — |
| Texas | 8 | #2,562 | #2,790 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 113 | #1,790 | — | — |
| 2024 | 112 | #1,803 | — | — |
| 2023 | 110 | #1,832 | — | — |
| 2022 | 116 | #1,779 | — | — |
| 2021 | 119 | #1,738 | — | — |
| 2020 | 103 | #1,877 | — | — |
| 2019 | 103 | #1,927 | — | — |
| 2018 | 108 | #1,876 | — | — |
| 2017 | 103 | #1,949 | — | — |
| 2016 | 113 | #1,836 | — | — |
| 2015 | 88 | #2,160 | — | — |
| 2014 | 129 | #1,657 | — | — |
| 2013 | 108 | #1,872 | — | — |
| 2012 | 95 | #2,041 | — | — |
| 2011 | 82 | #2,289 | — | — |
| 2010 | 95 | #2,087 | — | — |
| 2009 | 78 | #2,464 | — | — |
| 2008 | 116 | #1,849 | — | — |
| 2007 | 46 | #3,579 | — | — |
| 2006 | 53 | #3,164 | — | — |
| 2005 | 39 | #3,785 | — | — |
| 2004 | 40 | #3,675 | — | — |
| 2003 | 48 | #3,109 | — | — |
| 2002 | 32 | #4,047 | — | — |
| 2001 | 31 | #4,080 | — | — |
| 2000 | 31 | #4,045 | — | — |
| 1999 | 22 | #4,979 | — | — |
| 1998 | 10 | #9,057 | — | — |
| 1997 | 6 | #13,189 | — | — |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,940 | — | — |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,371 | — | — |
| 1994 | 11 | #7,971 | — | — |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,490 | — | — |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,363 | — | — |
| 1991 | 14 | #6,475 | — | — |
| 1990 | 10 | #8,299 | — | — |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,454 | — | — |
| 1988 | 9 | #8,153 | — | — |
| 1987 | 14 | #5,502 | — | — |
| 1985 | 14 | #5,250 | — | — |
| 1984 | 9 | #7,197 | — | — |
| 1983 | 9 | #7,091 | — | — |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,652 | — | — |
| 1981 | 10 | #6,648 | — | — |
| 1980 | 9 | #7,185 | — | — |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,772 | — | — |
| 1977 | 8 | #7,314 | — | — |
| 1976 | 12 | #5,089 | — | — |
| 1975 | 13 | #4,763 | — | — |
| 1973 | 12 | #4,750 | — | — |
| 1972 | 14 | #4,232 | — | — |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,992 | — | — |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,665 | — | — |
| 1969 | 9 | #5,324 | — | — |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,480 | — | — |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,518 | — | — |
| 1966 | 8 | #5,138 | — | — |
| 1965 | 11 | #4,123 | — | — |
| 1964 | 14 | #3,635 | — | — |
| 1963 | 25 | #2,466 | — | — |
| 1962 | 14 | #3,546 | — | — |
| 1961 | 13 | #3,735 | — | — |
| 1960 | 20 | #2,792 | — | — |
| 1959 | 18 | #2,835 | — | — |
| 1958 | 14 | #3,336 | — | — |
| 1957 | 12 | #3,617 | — | — |
| 1956 | 12 | #3,631 | — | — |
| 1955 | 16 | #2,922 | — | — |
| 1954 | 12 | #3,442 | — | — |
| 1953 | 9 | #4,138 | — | — |
| 1952 | 9 | #4,025 | — | — |
| 1951 | 10 | #3,647 | — | — |
| 1950 | 11 | #3,364 | — | — |
| 1949 | 13 | #2,954 | — | — |
| 1948 | 13 | #2,924 | — | — |
| 1947 | 8 | #4,235 | — | — |
| 1946 | 13 | #2,839 | — | — |
| 1945 | 16 | #2,213 | — | — |
| 1944 | 7 | #3,955 | — | — |
| 1943 | 10 | #3,187 | — | — |
| 1942 | 13 | #2,630 | — | — |
| 1941 | 14 | #2,346 | — | — |
| 1940 | 9 | #3,135 | — | — |
| 1939 | 12 | #2,532 | — | — |
| 1938 | 12 | #2,532 | — | — |
| 1937 | 17 | #1,972 | — | — |
| 1936 | 6 | #4,014 | — | — |
| 1935 | 17 | #1,975 | — | — |
| 1934 | 12 | #2,526 | — | — |
| 1933 | 12 | #2,502 | — | — |
| 1932 | 12 | #2,595 | — | — |
| 1931 | 21 | #1,724 | — | — |
| 1930 | 13 | #2,515 | — | — |
| 1929 | 18 | #1,994 | — | — |
| 1928 | 18 | #2,069 | — | — |
| 1927 | 11 | #2,997 | — | — |
| 1926 | 15 | #2,437 | — | — |
| 1925 | 21 | #1,925 | — | — |
| 1924 | 23 | #1,851 | — | — |
| 1923 | 21 | #1,929 | — | — |
| 1922 | 18 | #2,165 | — | — |
| 1921 | 15 | #2,465 | — | — |
| 1920 | 17 | #2,235 | — | — |
| 1919 | 20 | #1,903 | — | — |
| 1918 | 10 | #3,172 | — | — |
| 1917 | 8 | #3,602 | — | — |
| 1916 | 14 | #2,331 | — | — |
| 1915 | 19 | #1,773 | — | — |
| 1914 | 10 | #2,380 | — | — |
| 1913 | 8 | #2,476 | — | — |
| 1912 | 12 | #1,692 | — | — |
| 1911 | 5 | #2,735 | — | — |
| 1910 | 8 | #1,886 | — | — |
| 1909 | 5 | #2,428 | — | — |
| 1901 | 5 | #1,868 | — | — |
| 1898 | 5 | #1,875 | — | — |
| 1896 | 5 | #1,749 | — | — |
| 1893 | 6 | #1,384 | — | — |
| 1892 | 6 | #1,402 | — | — |
| 1891 | 5 | #1,467 | — | — |
| 1890 | 5 | #1,468 | — | — |
| 1886 | 5 | #1,223 | — | — |
| 1884 | 10 | #714 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).