Milde
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in German: alternative form of mild (Still common in the sense of merciful, otherwise obsolete.)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mɪldə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Milde is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country.
- NONorway1 in 9.4K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 60K
- CZCzechia1 in 110K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Norway (measured from records)
- Sources
- 43 (measured from records)
- 1 in 9.4K (inferred from the name graph)
582 people
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Old English personal name; surviving in Millsom
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Milde is read(measured from records)
Milde is one spelling over 3 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.
- German48%
alternative form of mild (Still common in the sense of merciful, otherwise obsolete.)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English30%
Old English personal name; surviving in Millsom
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
Obsolete spelling of mild.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish6.2%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Milde in Spanish.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Milde 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.
582 people counted by SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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: SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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)
Milde is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
nickname from Middle High German milde. Middle Dutch mild(e) ‘kind’, ‘gentle’, ‘compassionate’, ‘generous’. 2, German: habitational name from Milda in Thuringia.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In enm, alternative form of mile (“millet”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ang, mild, gentle, kind, merciful, generous; meek
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Vinzenz Eduard Mildeb. 1777DERoman Catholic archbishop (1777-1853)
- Carl Julius Mildeb. 1803DEGerman painter (1803–1875)
- Julius Mildeb. 1824PLGerman bryologist and pteridologist (1824–1871)
- Ludwig Mildeb. 1849DEGerman musician (1849–1913)
- Maria Mildeb. 1921DEGerman actor, voice actor and author (1921–2005)
- Kurt Mildeb. 1932DEGerman architect (1932-2007)
- Horst Mildeb. 1933DEGerman politician (1933–2023)
- Lothar Mildeb. 1934DEEast German discus thrower
- Gottfried Mildeb. 1934DEGerman politician (1934-2018)
- Tor Mildeb. 1953NONorwegian music journalist (1953-2014)
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 37 sources across 20 countries.
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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
- Where does the name Milde come from?
- Old English personal name; surviving in Millsom Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Milde?
- A machine transcription gives /mɪldə/ (IPA) for German.
- What does the name Milde mean?
- In German, alternative form of mild (Still common in the sense of merciful, otherwise obsolete.)
- What are other forms of the name Milde?
- In the etymology graph, Mild is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Milde have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 582 people named Milde, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Milde most common?
- Milde is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 9.4 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Milde?
- In Norway, the national register counted 582 people named Milde, about 1 in 9.4 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mildeThe 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, “Milde”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.