Millard
surname · Latin script
Meaning: (i) From French, from a Germanic personal name meaning literally ‘good-brave’; (ii) ‘person living by a millet field’; (iii) different form of Millward
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mʲɪləd/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Millard is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 11K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 11K
- CACanada≈1 in 19K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 414 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.1K (inferred from the name graph)
12,843 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
St. Kitts & Nevis
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
(i) From French, from a Germanic personal name meaning literally ‘good-brave’; (ii) ‘person living by a millet field’; (iii) different form of Millward.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Millard, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Millard 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 12,843 | 1 in 26K | 13K | Millard | 414 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈6,000 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Millard | 212 |
| AU Australia | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Millard | 147 |
| CA Canada | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Millard | 137 |
| FR France | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 36K | 223 | — | 4 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Millard | 45 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | 13 | 1 in 4.1K | 13 | — | 1 |
12,843 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026. 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)
Millard 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 French, du nom germanique Milhard, de mil « bon, généreux » et hard « dur, fort ».
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
In English, Old English: the Mill Keeper
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
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)
- Joseph Hopkins Millardb. 1836USAmerican politician (1836-1922)
- Thomas Franklin Fairfax Millardb. 1868USAmerican journalist (1868-1942)
- Helene Millardb. 1905USAmerican actress (1905-1974)
- Oscar Millardb. 1908USBritish screenwriter (1908-1990)
- Francis Millardb. 1914USOlympic wrestler
- Guy Millardb. 1917GBBritish diplomat
- Beth Brooke-Marciniakb. 1959USnot in their usual nameGlobal Vice Chair of Public Policy for Ernst & Young
- Keith Millardb. 1962USAmerican football player and coach
- Candice Millardb. 1968USAmerican journalist
- Bart Millardb. 1972USAmerican musician
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.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 13K | #2,805 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 13K | #2,633 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 12K | #2,916 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 305 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 292 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 284 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 280 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 223 | — |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026 | 2026 | 13 | #169 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 7
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Millard mean, and where does it come from?
- (i) From French, from a Germanic personal name meaning literally ‘good-brave’; (ii) ‘person living by a millet field’; (iii) different form of Millward. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Millard?
- A machine transcription gives /mʲɪləd/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Millard have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 13 thousand people named Millard, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled millard.
- Where is Millard most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Millard is densest in St. Kitts & Nevis — about 1 in 4.1 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Millard?
- In the United States, the national register counted 12,843 people named Millard in 2010, about 1 in 26 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Millard?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/millardThe 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, “Millard”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.