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Millicent

#1,900 in 2025Girls' name

Hard work + strong

Millicent has been given to 11,825 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #1,900 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1927, with 249 recorded.

Babies named Millicent, 2025

1 in 32,200

Millicent over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Millicent: meaning, origin, and history

Hard work + strong

Germanic languages and English

What Millicent means

Millicent means “hard work + strong”, associated with amalą and swinþaz.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From the Old French Melisende, from Old High German Amalasuntha, Amalaswintha, from the Proto-Germanic roots *amalą (“hard work”) + *swinþaz (“strong”).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Millicent (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Origin, language, and formation

Millicent is used in English and Cebuano. Its origins include Germanic languages and English.

Millicent comes through Old French Melisende and Old High German Amalasuntha.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Millicent is pronounced /ˈmɪlɪsənt/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 11,825 girls were recorded with the name Millicent between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 249 in 1927; its best national rank was #435 in 1927.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,942 in 2020 to #1,900 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,273 in 2015 to #1,900 in 2025.

How common is Millicent?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 32,200
103 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 15,600
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,900
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
22,311 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Millicent 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 2025 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 22,311 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Millicent. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Millicents were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Millicent was born before 1949 — so the typical Millicent is around 76 today.

Median birth year
1949
About 76 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
17.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
17.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
5,858
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Choose a decade

1920s — 17.0% of all recorded uses (2,014).

Is Millicent 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
−283
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+42
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+373
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.24×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
41.4%
Peak was 1927 (249)
Years since peak
98
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#435
1927

Where Millicent is used

Across 2016–2025, Millicent was most concentrated in Missouri — about 1 in 7,143 girls, against 1 in 20,710 across all states with data. It was least common in Georgia (1 in 100,000).

114 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Missouri1 in 7,143
  2. 2Wisconsin1 in 10,000
  3. 3North Carolina1 in 11,111
  4. 4Colorado1 in 12,500
  5. 5Indiana1 in 14,286
  6. 6Ohio1 in 14,286
  7. 7Tennessee1 in 14,286
  8. 8California1 in 20,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Millicent around the world

Where Millicent ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #1,028
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1989–2024
    #790
    in 2024
  • Ireland
    2002–2022
    #905
    in 2022
  • France
    2009–2016
    #6,673
    in 2016
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,709
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1949–2013
    #536
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Millicent

People whose public names include Millicent, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Millicent in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Millicent. Linked forms have their own page here.

MillyMillieMilicentMillicaMelisendeMélisende

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Millicent by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,900
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 42
Best rank ever
#435
1927
Peak year
1927
249 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
11,825
Count in 2025
103

Names similar to Millicent

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

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Names with a curve like Millicent

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Millicent, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Millicent

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

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