Milicent

Girls' name

Hard work + strong, through Millicent

Milicent has been given to 106 babies in the U.S. since 1939. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1971, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Milicent, 2019

1 in 694,000

Milicent over time, 1880–2025

Girls

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Milicent: meaning, origin, and history

Hard work + strong, through Millicent

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Milicent means

Milicent belongs to the name family reached through Milicent → Millicent. Its meaning is “hard work + strong”.

Origin, language, and formation

Milicent is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Millicent.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 106 girls were recorded with the name Milicent between 1939 and 2019. Its highest annual count was 11 in 1971; its best national rank was #4,730 in 1939.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

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How common is Milicent?

Milicent had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2019, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2019: 1 in 694,000; 5 of 3,472,229 births
Among girls only: 1 in 336,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2019: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 481,354 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Milicent sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2019 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 481,354 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Milicent. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Milicents were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Milicent was born before 1970 — so the typical Milicent is around 55 today.

Median birth year: 1970; About 55 years old
Biggest decade: 1970s; 49.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 4.7%; Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950: 101; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1970s — 49.1% of all recorded uses (52).

Is Milicent rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1971 (11)
Years since peak: 54; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 21.5% average annual change
Best rank ever: #4,730; 1939

Spellings of Milicent

Milicent is not the most common spelling — Millicent is, with 99.1% against Milicent's 0.89%.

Millicent99.1%11,825
Milicent0.89%106

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Milicent by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #4,730; 1939
Peak year: 1971; 11 that year
First recorded: 1939
Last recorded: 2019
All-time count: 106
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Milicent

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Milliani Mililani Milarose Milahni Milaina Milenna Milanii Million Millani Milleigh Mileydi Millennia Miliyah Milianna Crescent Millianna Milanna Millette Millenia Mileidy Milanni Milanie Mileigh Milayna

Sibling names for Milicent

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Trena Charisse Darcie Tressa Kerrie Nicola Latonia Tisha

For a brother

Shon Darrick Judd Douglass Alfonzo Scottie Erich Edwardo

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