How rare is the name Mildred?

83,139 people in the United States have the first name Mildred, about 1 in 3,633. It ranks #636 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

MILDRED

#636

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
83,139
About
1 in 3,633
This common or more
62.8%
Who bears it

Of the 83,139 people named Mildred, 63.1% reported their origin as White, 20.7% as Black and 11.4% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are female (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Mildred peaked in 1920, when 18,099 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18802025
Peak year
1920
Births that year
18,099
In 2025*
98 ▼99%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 452,998 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Mildred by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1910s, when it ranked #14. The largest share of babies named Mildred, 62.6%, were born between 1901 and 1927, the Greatest Generation's birth years.

1880s#1662,924
1890s#6013,839
1900s#1536,325
1910s#14124,347
1920s#21147,624
1930s#6862,089
1940s#18733,212
1950s#36117,623
1960s#6077,707
1970s#1,0612,865
1980s#1,8081,378
1990s#2,919874
2000s#3,872807
2010s#4,179779
2020s#3,545605
Before 19014.3%
Greatest Generation 1901–2762.6%
Silent Generation 1928–4523.3%
Baby boom 1946–647.5%
Generation X 1965–801.3%
Millennials 1981–960.4%
Generation Z 1997–120.3%
2013 and later0.3%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Mildred is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Mildred has been most common in West Virginia (2.1×), Arkansas (2×), and Mississippi (1.9×), and least common in Nevada (0.09×).

395,284 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Mildred

#634 Maxwell · 83,285#635 Leticia · 83,202#637 Jaden · 83,104#638 Kendall · 83,086

Spelled almost the same

7 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Mildred, most common first.

#23,855 Mildre · 408#32,104 Mildrey · 264#44,535 Mildreth · 155#47,034 Mildren · 140#50,823 Mildrid · 117#51,658 Milderd · 112#53,155 Milder · 102

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