Mildred

Where Mildred comes from

From the name of an 8th-century English saint, Old English Mildþrȳþ (from milde (“mild”) + þrȳþ (“strength”)).
— Wiktionary's entry for Mildred
  • Old English
  • 2 syllables
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #121 among girls — 132 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1901
    Mildred Harris born
    American actress
  3. 1920
    Peak, #6
    18,060 babies named Mildred — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1930
    Mildred Dresselhaus born
    American physicist
  5. 1931
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #26.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Old English.
Namesakes
  • Mildred Dresselhaus · American physicist, 1930–2017
  • Mildred Harris · American actress, 1901–1944
  • Mildred Natwick · American actress, 1905–1994
  • Mildred Dunnock · American theater, film and television actress, 1901–1991
  • Mildred Gillars · American Nazi propagandist, 1900–1988

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.