Mildred
Mildred is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 91 births. Its best rank was 6th, in 1912–1913, 1915–1920.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 910.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 192018,060 births
- Best rank
- #6first in 1912
- Since 1880
- 452,895people given the name
The story in the numbers
451,312 girls have been named Mildred in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1920, with 18,060 births — 1.5% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 91 births in 2024, against 18,060 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1922, and the 1920s alone account for 33%. It has spent 104 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 59 of them in the top 100 and 24 in the top 10.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 1,583 boys have also been given it, 0.35% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Mildred | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 2,919 | |
| 1890s | 13,792 | |
| 1900s | 36,173 | |
| 1910s | 123,998 | |
| 1920s | 147,155 | |
| 1930s | 61,737 | |
| 1940s | 33,069 | |
| 1950s | 17,573 | |
| 1960s | 7,695 | |
| 1970s | 2,858 | |
| 1980s | 1,378 | |
| 1990s | 873 | |
| 2000s | 807 | |
| 2010s | 779 | |
| 2020s | 506 |
In 1920, its biggest year
Mildred was the 6th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1920 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1920.
Names that rose and fell with Mildred
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Lucillepeak 1920
- Rubyepeak 1919
- Helenpeak 1918
- Mozellepeak 1920
- Opalpeak 1918
- Filomenapeak 1923
- Jewellpeak 1920
- Maurinepeak 1917
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.