girls:
33 births since 1917
#5683 (1st percentile)
boys:
16.7k births since 1880
#890 (81st percentile)
overall:
16.8k births since 1880
#1994 (74th percentile)
The name Millard is the #1,994 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 16,765 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 74.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 74.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #890 (80.6% percentile) for all time with 16,732 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,683 (0.5% percentile) for all time with 33 births since 1917.
Millard has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1917 for girls). Birth data for Millard is available in 139 out of the 143 years between 1880 and 2022 (139 years for boys and 5 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Millard has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.8% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Millard reached its peak popularity in 1922, achieving the 55.6% percentile (ranked #243) with 425 births per million. The name was most common in 1887, with 613 births per million (ranked 29.7% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
For girls, Millard reached its peak popularity in 1919, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #591) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1919, with 7 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1939.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Millard".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Millard. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Millard is pronounced as MIH-lerd, which has 2 syllables.
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