Mildred
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: from the personal name Mildred, probably from St Mildred; first attested William filius Meldreð 1175 P (Lancashire)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mɪldɹəd/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mildred is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Jamaica it is the 8th most common given name.
- JMJamaica≈1 in 1.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- SGSingapore≈1 in 1.5K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 2K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- #740 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 431 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈880,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Jamaica, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from the personal name Mildred, probably from St Mildred; first attested William filius Meldreð 1175 P (Lancashire)
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Mildred is read(measured from records)
Mildred is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English82%
from the personal name Mildred, probably from St Mildred; first attested William filius Meldreð 1175 P (Lancashire)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
A female given name from Old English.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish5.7%
Anglosaxon Mildthryth: mildi 'suave, generoso' + thryth 'querido/amable' o 'fuerza'
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mildred counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈880,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Mildred | 10 |
| US United States | #296 | 83,139 | 1 in 4K | 83K | Mildred | 431 |
| PH Philippines | #558 | ≈52,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | — | Mildred | 107 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈39,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.9K | — | Mildred | 22 |
| GB United Kingdom | #377 | ≈33,000 est. | ≈1 in 2K | listed | Mildred | 132 |
| SG Singapore | #189 | ≈4,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Mildred | 48 |
| SK Slovakia | #679 | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | Mildred | 3 |
| JM Jamaica | #8 | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Mildred | 4 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the gb-nisra-baby-names-ni register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Mildred is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, Mildred är ett engelskt namn, fornengelskt Mildþryð, sammansatt av mild ’mild’ och þrȳð (< germanskt *þrūþi) ’kraft, styrka’.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In German, im 20. Jh. aus dem Englischen übernommener weibl. Vom., der auf alt englisch MildJjryö (altengl. mäd »mild, sanft« + altengl. pryd »Stärke, Macht«) zurückgeht.
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Mildred J. Hillb. 1859USAmerican composer (1859–1916)
- Mildred Gillarsb. 1900USAmerican Nazi propagandist (1900–1988)
- Mildred Harrisb. 1901USAmerican actress (1901–1944)
- Mildred Dunnockb. 1901USAmerican theater, film and television actress (1901-1991)
- Mildred Davisb. 1901USAmerican actress (1901–1969)
- Mildred Natwickb. 1905USAmerican actress (1905–1994)
- Babe Didrikson Zahariasb. 1911USnot in their usual nameAmerican golfer and athlete
- Carole Cookb. 1924USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress
- Gloria DeHavenb. 1925USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress and singer (1925-2016)
- Mildred Dresselhausb. 1930USAmerican physicist (1930-2017)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 73 sources across 43 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 83K | #636 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 151 | #636 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 98 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1970 | 7 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2022 | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Mildred mean, and where does it come from?
- from the personal name Mildred, probably from St Mildred; first attested William filius Meldreð 1175 P (Lancashire) Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- Is Mildred a male or female name?
- Mildred is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Mildred have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 881 thousand people named Mildred in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mildred.
- What are other forms of the name Mildred?
- In the etymology graph, Mildrid is a form of the same name in other languages; Millie and Milly are recorded short or pet forms.
- How common is the name Mildred?
- In the United States, the national register counted 83,139 people named Mildred in 2020, about 1 in 4.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Mildred compared with other names?
- In Jamaica, Mildred is the 8th most common given name of 21,568 given names recorded there.
- How do you pronounce Mildred?
- A machine transcription gives /mɪldɹəd/ (IPA) for English.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mildredThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Mildred” — the 8th most common given name in Jamaica. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.