Milford

Where Milford comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Milford.

Milford through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #809 among boys, with 6 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1917
    Peak, #368
    230 babies named Milford, its best rank.
  3. 1941
    Milford Graves born
    American jazz drummer and percussionist
  4. 1941
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #569.
  5. 1942
    Milford H. Wolpoff born
    American paleoanthropologist
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Milford Graves · American jazz drummer and percussionist, 1941–2021
  • Milford H. Wolpoff · American paleoanthropologist, born 1942
  • Milford W. Howard · American politician and lawyer, 1862–1937
  • Milford Zornes · American artist, 1908–2008

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.