girls:
451.2k births since 1880
#77 (99th percentile)
boys:
1.6k births since 1889
#3085 (33rd percentile)
overall:
452.8k births since 1880
#150 (98th percentile)
The name Mildred is the #150 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 452,804 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 98.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 98.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #77 (98.7% percentile) for all time with 451,221 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #3,085 (32.7% percentile) for all time with 1,583 births since 1889.
Mildred has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1889 for boys).
The name Mildred has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.7% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Mildred reached its peak popularity in 1920, achieving the 99.2% percentile (ranked #6) with 14,517 births per million. The name was most common in 1913, with 15,149 births per million (ranked 99.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2013, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Mildred ranks #843 for girls (11.0% percentile) with 62 births per million, which is 0.4% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Mildred reached its peak popularity in 1929, achieving the 8.9% percentile (ranked #484) with 47 births per million. The name was most common in 1903, with 162 births per million (ranked 7.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1970.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Mildred".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Mildred. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 46.2% confident that Mildred is pronounced as MIHL-drehd, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is MIHL-drihd, at 30.8% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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